Sara Paretsky, Bad Company with Rainy Day Books

Celebrate this bestselling author in Kansas City! Join Rainy Day Books in-store to celebrate Bad Company with bestselling author Sara Paretsky! “Sara Paretsky is a legend . . . If you haven’t read her yet, now is the time.” —Harlan Coben “An author of matchless intelligence, craft, and power. This is why Sara Paretsky reigns as one of the all-time greats.” —Karin Slaughter This event takes place in-store and includes a conversation with the author. The Book Bad Company International bestseller and groundbreaking icon Sara Paretsky returns with a brand new novel and character - proving once again that she's one of the pre-eminent authors in crime fiction and beyond. To all appearances, Lily Sedako is an ordinary retiree—a seventy-something single woman living in Chicago, her days filled with the routine tasks of normal life. But underneath that exterior, lies a remarkable past. A former CIA field agent, she spent her career in various Central Asian countries, most notably in Hayalistan, a former USSR territory. But everything went sideways when Lily's connections to the mountain tribes resulted in her being moved to a new post and Rani, the tribal leader and first democratically elected President was removed, presumed killed, in a coup. All of this is long behind her when she receives an anonymous package containing a magazine with an article about Hayalistan—an article with a previously unknown photo showing Lily in the background. This was no mistake—someone out there is trying to expose Lily, after more than two decades, for reasons unknown. Even worse, the magazine story casts doubt on everything she believed to be true about her time in Hayalistan. Lily is determined to find out who is behind this and, even more important, the truth of what really happened so long ago. As word of her investigation reaches the CIA, the company knows that they must silence her but Lily is no one's pawn, even now. Using hard won skills and personal connections from her former life, Lily takes on the unwise, and perhaps impossible task of fighting back against the powerful forces aligning against her. In a powerful novel about love, power, corruption, aging, trust...and revenge, Bad Company reaffirms Sara Paretsky place as one of the pre-eminent crime writers of our time. The Author Sara Paretsky - Hailed by the Washington Post as “the definition of perfection in the genre,” SARA PARETSKY is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous novels, including the renowned V.I. Warshawski series. She is one of only four living writers to have received both the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and the Cartier Diamond Dagger from the Crime Writers Association of Great Britain. She lives in Chicago. Please Note: There are no refunds for this event. If you are unable to attend, your book will be available for pickup at Rainy Day Books starting the following day. If you are not local, we'll be happy to mail it to you upon request. Thank you for your support! We will hold your event book in-store for a maximum of 6 months following the event. If you have not retrieved your book in that time period, it will be donated.