I live and die with the Chicago Cubs

The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.

I live and die with the Chicago Cubs

I have one vivid memory of one of the days that the marches were taking place. We were in a Catholic, predominantly Polish and Lithuanian neighborhood. Chicago is a place where people define themselves by their parish and by their ethnicity.

Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.

The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.

Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.