Alex Chapa, intrepid reporter for a Chicago newspaper, is called upon by Nina Cardrolini to help find her husband of 40 years, Emil, who has gone missing. Alex's investigation into the man's last known whereabouts leads him to a series of bodies found floating in the Chicago River.

The reporter Alex was a rather icharacter. However, the criminal enterprise at the heart of the story was too implausibly stupid to be believable. ( )