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Julia Gateswood hires unwilling PI, Mike Angel, to find her lacking sister, but Julia's sociable position and the sordid history of the sister make this anything but a simple case. Julia's a mysterious ex-beauty queen, who hitched for ambition to congressman Henry Gateswood, a charismatic ex-professor working for a vacated US Senate seats from Illinois in 1962. When Julia's sister, Gail, a loose girl with previous shady cable connections, disappears, Julia calling on private attention Mike Angel, who quickly learns his new employer isn't everything she seems to be, but what she actually is beyond any doubt is a superb hypnotist of Mike's sex drive. Before Mike is barely into the case, he's visited by Julia's unusual secretary, who later locates the lacking sister's headless body in the guesthouse of the Gateswood house. Mike and his unofficial partner, Rick Anthony, a 25 calendar year veteran of the NYC detective pressure and, whose vocabulary is suffering from too many NYU grad classes, get to the crime scene before the police and follow hints that pit them against powerful Chicago mobsters. Rick was somebody for quite some time with Mike's overdue father, who was murdered on his first case as an exclusive investigator. O. W. Wilson, a famous police main and gangbuster from Kansas City, has bought out the Chicago pressure and enlists Mike to get the office mole linked with the entire year old Summerfield scandal, where police were in cahoots with robbers. Mike hunts for Gail's killer while sorting out the threads of motive, political intrigue, bad cops and an arrogant DA, and Henry Gateswood's role. Even while Mike becomes conflicted by appeal to Julia, who disappears at a crucial juncture, and then discover that her hubby has located her in a sanitarium. What were Henry's real motives for putting her away? Who killed Gail and exactly how does she match Chicago mobsters on the run from the Summerfield scandal? Mike and Rick follow too many hints to a unexpected summary. One twisting aspect of Mike's investigative instincts is often timely warnings from the "voice" of his overdue daddy, and also through sensations felt in a long scar Mike won during a shootout with the Russian mob who was behind his father's loss of life. He also challenges with a want to commit to Molly Bennett, his office manager and love interest, while conflicted with an over-healthy desire for attractive women who mix his path. This is actually the third in a series of four Mike Angel books. These happen in NY/NJ (Deep Quarry), and Chicago in the first 1960s (Deep Quarry, Deep Lake, Deep Blonde, Dark Poison). Some actual historical personas and events are utilized. At this time only Dark Poison is released.
