Description
Chicago in the 1970s Gloria Brooks is an accountant-and a seasoned middlewoman-quietly navigating, patching, and concealing the criminal operations run by the Vitale brothers. Ronald, the older brother, is a smiling serpent in the world of finance; Edward, the younger, a live wire born of the streets. Gloria is the thread that holds their empire together. But when a newly appointed detective, Beatrice Mason, arrives to investigate the company's pristine facade, Gloria is ordered to get close, to test her. What begins as an assignment slowly unravels into something far more dangerous: doubt. And in the quiet corners of the office, Laura-the earnest young woman who always watches Gloria with silent admiration-harbors a feeling she can no longer hide.
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