Shadow Ticket

Milwaukee, 1932. The Great Depression is raging, Prohibition’s end is on the horizon, Al Capone sits in federal prison—and the private-eye business is shifting from labor disputes to more personal troubles. Hicks McTaggart, a former strikebreaker turned detective, thinks he finally has steady work. That is, until a simple assignment—tracking down the runaway heiress to a Wisconsin cheese fortune—goes spectacularly sideways.

As he chases her trail across a continent on the brink, Hicks becomes entangled with Nazis, Soviet operatives, British spies, swing musicians, paranormal dabblers, outlaw motorcyclists, and a host of problems far outside his pay grade. Lost in a web of history he barely understands, he may be in over his head—except for one advantage: the Big Band Era is dawning, and Hicks is a surprisingly talented dancer.