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In his bestselling legal thrillers, William Bernhardt has explored the dark side of modern politics, ability, and the law. Now Bernhardt transforms back the clock to the city of Cleveland, Ohio, in nov 1935. Predicated on true events and new discoveries about Eliot Ness, Nemesis is a brilliantly told story offering this renowned lawman’s fateful duel with a terrifyingly new kind of unlawful: America’s first serial killer.
In Chicago, Eliot Ness possessed created “the Untouchables,” the fabled team of federal government agents who had been beyond problem and who finally put Al Capone behind bars. Now the headline-grabbing Ness has been relocated to Cleveland, in which a new mayor desperately needs some positive publicity. The heroic, squeaky-clean Given is the perfect man to become the city’s director of general public basic safety, but by the time Ness starts his new job, a killer has started a career of his own. Which man is really as obsessed with blood and mayhem as Eliot Ness is obsessed with justice.
One by one, bodies are located, each one decapitated and exclusively dissected with a doctor’s skill and a madman’s bent. The police are baffled, the populace is terrorized, and magazine headlines blare about the so-called “Torso Killer.” Though it’s not his turf, Ness is forced to cross bureaucratic restrictions and take over the case, working with a dogged, street-smart detective and making enemies every step of just how. A lot more energy Ness pours in to the investigation, the greater it takes over his life, his marriage, even his untouchable reputation. Because in Cleveland, there is only one true untouchable: a killer who gets the perfect hiding place and the perfect plan for destroying Eliot Ness.
From the first primitive use of forensic mindset to a portrait of America fighting the Great Depressive disorder and a man fighting his own demons, Nemesis is a masterwork of enigma, murder, and brilliant, active historical suspense.
