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The Chicago Way: A Michael Kelly Novel

The Chicago Way: A Michael Kelly Novel

Harvest, James

Paperback

Mystery & Thriller

ISBN13: 9798266336827
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 20 2025
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A city built on a secret. A cop who knew too much. A PI who won't stop until the truth is buried... or he is.

The Chicago Way is not a rulebook. It's a warning.

When former Chicago detective Michael Kelly receives a panicked visit from his old partner, John Riley, he knows it's trouble. Riley, a mid-level organized crime investigator, is a man hollowed out by fear. He whispers of a conspiracy too big to name, hands over a single encrypted thumb drive, and issues a desperate plea: If anything happens to me, don't trust anyone.

The next morning, Riley is dead. The official story: a random mugging. But Kelly sees the truth-a professional execution disguised as street crime.

Now, with a haunted reporter as his only ally, Kelly tears into the dark heart of the city. He follows a labyrinthine trail of laundered money that leads from City Hall to offshore shell corporations and into the hands of a ruthless Russian oligarch. He uncovers a systematic plot to steal clean weapons from police evidence lockers. And he stumbles into the crosshairs of Ilya Volkov, a ghost from Russian intelligence whose signature is death made to look like tragedy.

But the most dangerous threat isn't the assassin or the corrupt officials. It's the faceless, inter-agency government task force that seems more interested in protecting its own secrets than stopping a killing. They've declared the truth a threat to national security, and they will silence anyone who threatens to expose it.

From the rain-lashed streets of the Loop to the opulent penthouses of the Gold Coast, Kelly is plunged into a vicious game where the rules are written by the powerful and the only way to win is to break them all. He must battle Russian Spetsnaz teams, outmaneuver a smooth-talking political fixer who owns the city, and expose a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of power before a staged assassination ignites an international crisis.

The Chicago Way is a relentless, atmospheric thriller for fans of Michael Connelly and Lee Child. It's a story about the cost of truth in a city that deals in lies, and one man's brutal quest for justice in a system designed to ensure he never finds it.

The deeper he digs, the more the city fights back. Because in Chicago, some secrets are meant to stay buried.

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