Andrew M. Greeley

Nuala Anne McGrail takes on an investigation about a young man from McGrails' West Side Chicago neighborhood who has gone missing in Iraq; his grieving family has all but written him off as dead.

In a plot that aims to rework the search for the Holy Grail, Brendan is rejuvenated by love for a strapping Irishwoman, whose mysterious past comes to light when she disappears completely, stranding him in the midst of a police investigation into the bombing death of his ex-wife.

A powerful and wonderfully funny, ironic novel of an irascible Chicago newspaperman who rediscovers human decency, his faith, and his wife as he goes after a wicked politician who's trying to get away with murder. Greeley is the bestselling author of Angels of September and Virgin and Martyr.