{"product_id":"we-all-fall-down-isbn-9780307473646","title":"We All Fall Down","description":"\u003cp\u003eA light bulb falls in a subway tunnel, releasing a deadly pathogen.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWithin hours, a homeless man, a cop, and then dozens more start to die.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHospitals become morgues. El trains become rolling hearses.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eChicago is on the verge of chaos before the mayor finally acts, quarantining entire sections of the city. Meanwhile, private investigator and former cop Michael Kelly hunts for the people responsible. The search takes him into the tangled underworld of Chicago’s West Side gangs and cops on the take, and the terrifying world of black biology—an elite field operating covertly at the nation’s top labs, where scientists play God and will do anything necessary to keep their secrets safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Dark-hearted, intoxicating. . . .  Nerve-jangling scary.” —\u003ci\u003eMilwaukee Journal-Sentinel\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An utterly persuasive view of a present-day apocalyptic nightmare.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Harvey does for the Windy City what Michael Connelly did for Los Angeles: He commandeers it, warts and all, and wrangles it into his fiction.” —\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Harvey] weaves Chicago history and politics with the conventions of mystery writing to create meditations on power—how it’s used, who it helps, and the way it hurts. . . . Honest, smart and funny.” —\u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] knockout thriller. . . . Harvey renders Kelly’s Chicago in crisp, tough and ironic prose.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The suspense hums and the dialogue is truthfully tough, but it’s the writing that elevates Harvey to the top of the PI genre. He’s the best Chicago novelist . . . since Nelson Algren.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Plain Dealer \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Harvey is a budding superstar.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Daily News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Multiple threads come together but not before the final pages. Until then, Harvey twists the plot like a braided rope, ratcheting up tension with the ensuing pages.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Missourian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“A major new voice.” —Michael Connelly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Harvey\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Chicago Way, The Fifth Floor, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Third Rail \u003c\/i\u003eand is also a journalist and documentary producer. His work has won multiple Emmy Awards, and has received two Primetime Emmy nominations and an Academy Award nomination, among numerous other awards. He holds a law degree from Duke University, a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University, and a bachelor’s degree in classical languages from Holy Cross College. He lives, of course, in Chicago.\u003c\/p\u003eCHAPTER 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy eyes flicked open. The clock read 4:51 a.m., and I was wide awake. I’d been dreaming—-rich colors, shapes, and places—-but couldn’t remember all the details. It didn’t matter. I climbed out of bed and shuffled down the hallway. Rachel Swenson sat in an armchair by the front windows. The pup was asleep in her lap.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Hey,” I said.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe turned, face paled in light from the street, eyes a glittering reflection of my grief and guilt. “Hey.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“That dog can sleep anywhere.” I pulled a chair close. Maggie slipped an eye open, yawned, stretched, and went back to sleep.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I should be staying at my place,” Rachel said.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I like you here.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe tickled two bandaged fingers across the top of the pup’s head and ran her eyes back toward the windows. Rachel was a sitting judge for the Northern District of Illinois. And one of the finest people I knew. She was also damaged. Because she was my girlfriend. Or, rather, had been.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I was going to make a cup of tea,” I said. “You want one?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe shook her head. I stayed where I was. And we sat together in the darkness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“You can’t sleep?” she said.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Dreams.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe nodded, and we sat some more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“What’s the knife for, Rach?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe looked down at the knife tucked into her left hand. “I got it from the kitchen.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Why?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer gaze drifted to a small table and the slab of cheese that sat on it. “You want a piece?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI shook my head. She held the blade up between us. “You thought I was going to hurt someone?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Just wondering about the knife, Rach.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I’m fine.” It had been almost a month since the attack. Most of the swelling in her face was gone—-the bruises reduced to faint traces of yellow.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“What did you dream about?” she said.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I usually don’t remember.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Usually?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Sometimes I get premonitions. Twice before. I wake up and feel certain things have happened.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“If they’ve already happened, they’re not premonitions.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“You’re right.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Are you going to make your tea?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In a minute.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Tell me about them,” she said, cutting off a small slice of cheese and nibbling at a corner.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The dreams?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The premonitions.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I got the first one when my brother died.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Philip?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I was seventeen. Woke up in the middle of the night and walked out to our living room.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“And?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I sat in front of the phone and stared at it for ten minutes until it rang. The warden told me he’d killed himself. Hung himself in a cell with his bedsheet. But it wasn’t anything I didn’t already know.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I’m sorry.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Second time was a couple years back—-the night my father died.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI remembered my eyes opening, tasting the old man’s passing like dry dust at the back of my throat. I pulled out the whiskey that night and filled a glass. Then I sat by the phone again until it rang.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“And now?” Rachel said.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“That’s the thing. I’m not sure this time.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“But it’s something.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I believe so, yes.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe got up from the chair and settled the pup on the couch. “I’ll make the tea.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI listened to her rattle the tap in the kitchen, then set the kettle. I got up and pulled a book off the shelf, Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War. It took me a moment to find the passage. Book 2, chapter 7. The historian’s description of the Plague of Athens.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll speculation as to its origin and its causes . . . I leave to other writers, whether lay or professional; for myself, I shall simply set down its nature, and explain the symptoms by which perhaps it may be recognized by the student, if it should ever break out again. This I can the better do, as I had the disease myself, and watched its operation in the case of others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI thought about Thucydides, surrounded by death, touched himself, scribbling down its essence for us to read twenty--four hundred years later. I’d lied to Rachel. I knew what I feared. Knew why I feared it. I closed my eyes and they were there—-two lightbulbs hanging in the darkness of the Chicago subway. Inside their glass skin, a question mark. Something the old historian himself might struggle to decipher.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe kettle began to whistle. On cue, the phone rang. Rachel watched from the doorway as I picked up. It wasn’t a voice I expected to hear. And that was exactly what I expected. I listened without saying more than a word or two. Finally, the voice stopped talking—-waiting, apparently, for a reaction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Where are you?” I said. The voice told me.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I’ll be there in an hour.” I hung up. Rachel looked like she might speak, then turned away. Maggie was awake now and staring at me from the couch.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“You want breakfast?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe pup’s ears perked up at the last word. I walked toward the kitchen. She beat me there by the length of the living room.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Was it what you thought?” Rachel handed me a mug of tea.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I don’t know.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI fed the dog. We both listened to her crunch away and then lick the bowl clean.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I have to go out,” I said.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I can’t be here when you get back.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Rach . . .”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Stop.” She raised her arm and touched her hand to her face, as if I were about to hit her. Then she turned and left. The pup followed. I walked back into the bedroom and got dressed. 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