Ballantine Books
January 2009
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Featuring: Elliot Ness
368 pages ISBN: 0345487583 EAN: 9780345487582 Hardcover Add to Wish List
In his bestselling legal thrillers, William Bernhardt has
explored the dark side of contemporary politics, power, and
the law. Now Bernhardt turns back the clock to the city of
Cleveland, Ohio, in the fall of 1935. Based on true events
and new discoveries about Eliot Ness, Nemesis is a
brilliantly told story featuring this legendary lawman’s
fateful duel with a terrifyingly new kind of criminal:
America’s first serial killer.
In Chicago, Eliot Ness had created “the Untouchables,” the
fabled team of federal agents who were beyond corruption and
who finally put Al Capone behind bars. Now the
headline-grabbing Ness has been moved to Cleveland, where a
new mayor desperately needs some positive publicity. The
heroic, squeaky-clean Fed is the perfect man to become the
city’s director of public safety, but by the time Ness
starts his new job, a killer has started a career of his
own. And this man is as obsessed with blood and mayhem as
Eliot Ness is obsessed with justice.
One by one, bodies are found, each one decapitated and
uniquely dissected with a doctor’s skill and a madman’s
bent. The police are baffled, the population is terrorized,
and newspaper headlines blare about the so-called “Torso
Killer.” Though it’s not his turf, Ness is forced to cross
bureaucratic boundaries and take over the case, working with
a dogged, street-smart detective and making enemies every
step of the way. The more energy Ness pours into the
investigation, the more it takes over his life, his
marriage, even his untouchable reputation. Because in
Cleveland, there is only one true untouchable: a killer who
has the perfect hiding place and the perfect plan for
destroying Eliot Ness.
From the first primitive use of forensic psychology to a
portrait of America battling the Great Depression and a man
battling his own demons, Nemesis is a masterwork of mystery,
murder, and vivid, dynamic historical suspense.
Eliot Ness, Private Eyes and lawmen solving masterminded gory murders fascinates me. This reminds me of the author, Les Roberts and his PI resolving crimes in Cleveland and California. Just the name Eliot Ness is enough to strike a blow to straighten out the criminal system. (Alyson Widen 9:56pm February 1, 2009)
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