Description:
Gabe Driscoll, chief of internal affairs for the New York City police department, stands in the city morgue, watching an autopsy. His interest is more than professional. The body is that of activist priest Frank Redmond, who along with Driscoll belonged to a championship swim relay team at a Jesuit high school in the 1950s. More than three decades later, Redmond has gone off a Harlem rooftop a few blocks from his church, and the surviving members of the team--Driscoll and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Andrew Troy--find themselves reunited in a bizarre new race to figure out how and why Redmond died. Was it suicide, as police and diocesan investigations have summarily concluded? Or was he pushed--and if so, by whom?
Brief description:
Robert Daley (born 1930 in New York City), is an American novelist and journalist . He is the author of 30 books: 18 fiction, 12 non fiction, five of which have been adapted for film. A sixth, The Cruel Sport, was sold to MGM and was the basis for the film Grand Prix.
Review Quotes:
"A glorious epic...This is the best novel of all Daley works, far more serious and precious than an ordinary mystery. It demands your attention and captures your imagination."
-- "Cleveland Plain Dealer"