The reign of the Kingfisher
(Book)

On a stormy night in Chicago thirty years ago, a thirteen-year-old boy walked the midnight streets feeling invincible. But before he made it home, the boy saw something that would haunt him for the rest of his life: an encounter with the Kingfisher, the city's local superhero--or its vigilante menace, depending on who you asked. It was the last sighting of the Kingfisher before he was killed. Three decades later, retired journalist and Kingfisher expert Marcus Waters is summoned to the police station. A video has just been released, showing a masked gunman taking hostages. The gunman says he'll kill them, one by one, unless the police confess to having faked the superhero's death those many years ago. Marcus notices that the hostages are all connected to an incident in the past, and he knows who might be in danger next. But he won't be able to find them alone. Marcus pairs up with a disgraced police officer who can quietly look into his leads, and they are assisted by a brilliant hacker who has come under suspicion herself. But justice, for each of them, may mean different things. The three unlikely allies race against time to save the hostages and find out the truth about their city and themselves. They will all have to decide what it means to be a hero. --,Provided by publisher.