Prologue

It’s impossible to know how Ray and Roy McNulty might have turned out if they hadn’t been raised by two violent, ignorant drunks.

And maybe nothing would have happened at all if Sean Callahan had just pretended to show John Mahoney the respect Mahoney felt he deserved.

But when the McNulty brothers tried to kill Elinore Dobbs and cracked Joe DeMarco’s skull . . . Well, after that, things just spun out of control.