A Thousand Bridges
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Publisher Description
It was just an ordinary murder, a drug deal gone sour, leaving three dead teenagers and a drug dealer convicted of the crime. So, when Katherine Furay shows up at P.I. McDonald Clay's doorstep five years later to say her daughter had been a witness and that the murder wasn't ordinary at all, Mac suddenly finds himself in far over his head.
The last thing Clay needed was a cause, and he wasn't looking for a reason to live. He just wanted to be left alone to grieve for his dead partner and girlfriend Patty Sheevers, brutally murdered the last time Clay had adopted a 'cause.'
But Katherine Furay was Sheevers' best friend, and now she needs Clay's help, so he finds himself torn between responsibilities to the living and continuing a numbing, uninvolved self-indulgence. To his surprise, he discovers he does have some good qualities left.
He starts out investigating Tommy Lovett, owner of a local pool hall in the north Florida city of Palmetto Bay, and winds up going head-to-head with a powerful gubernatorial candidate. In the process, he fights to regain his self-respect and to save the people he loves.
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This bold and powerful debut pits dispirited former PI McDonald Clay against a conspiracy of evil and greed that reaches deep into the workings of the government. Five years after his partner and lover Patty Sheevers was killed during their investigation of a shady politician in northwest Florida, Clay has become a lackey for ultraconservative Bob Birk, leader of the political machine he'd been out to destroy. When Patty's friend Kate Furay asks for help in exposing Birk, who had raped her teenage daughter and may be behind the murders of the girl's friends, Clay reluctantly agrees, knowing Birk is headed for the Senate. He learns that Birk has his hand in the creation of a special ``supercadre'' of quasi-militiamen who will aid him in his plan to take over the drug trade. But no one in the establishment will tolerate allegations made against Birk; even an outrageous radio talk show host refuses to believe in the plot until his friend, who has agreed to assist Clay and Kate, is executed. McKinney's understated approach gives his alarmist tale its menace and punch as McDonald Clay, with the help of a few others, beats the odds and the bad guys.
