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In 1974, a revolutionary group held up the Old Shawmut Bank in Boston''s Audubon Circle. Money was stolen. And a woman named Emily Gordon, a visitor in town cashing traveller''s checks, was shot and killed. No one saw who shot her. Despite security-camera photos and a letter from the group claiming responsibility, the perpetrators have remained at large for nearly three decades.Enter Paul Giacomin, the closest thing to a son Spenser has. Twice before, Spenser''s come to the young man''s assistance; and now Paul is thirty-seven, his troubled past behind him. When Paul''s friend Daryl Gordon-daughter of the long-gone Emily-decides she needs closure regarding her mother''s death, it''s Spenser she turns to. The lack of clues and a missing FBI intelligence report force Spenser to reach out in every direction-to Daryl''s estranged, hippie father, to Vinnie Morris and the mob, to the mysterious Ives - testing his resourcefulness and his courageousness.