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2011 Edgar Award Finalist for Best First NovelLiam Mulligan is really as old-school as being a paper guy gets. His defeat is Providence, Rhode Island, and he knows every street and alley. He understands the police and prostitutes, the priests and street thugs. He knows the politicians—who and mobsters are virtually the same.Someone and one is methodically burning down the area Mulligan was raised in, people he enjoys and knows are perishing in the flames, and the general public is on the brink of panic.