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They certainly were the Sheridan males, dominated by passion, tricked by love, heirs to a history of abuse and unacceptable desire.  Gus, Ma's leading homicide cop: he knew equally well the back-room politics of City Hall and the personal interests of the extremely wealthy, a guy haunted by the wanton bravery and risky obsessions he learned from his dad, Conn, the patriarch, a lawless cop who created a group of revenge and betrayal that will cover half of a millennium, and Bob, Gus's precious boy, a Harvard lawyer and criminologist, fated to risk anything to interrupt the string of infatuation and trend,  Three decades Connected by abuse and offense -- characters and police, dads, sons, and lovers united finally by facts that may provide a household to its knees,