Upon arriving at his apartment in the following days, reporter Jack McEvoy, now writing for the consumer watchdog news service FairWarning out of Los Angeles, is stopped by two L.A.P.D. As she begins to lose consciousness, he tells her people call him "The Shrike".
They go up to her apartment and have sex, before he puts her in a headlock and squeezes her neck. Plot summary Ī drunk woman drives home with an unknown man. McEvoy's employer and its editor Myron Levin are both based on the real-life news service FairWarning with Myron Levin as its editor. Two chapters are stylized as news articles. The story is told in first-person narrative from the perspective of McEvoy, however, it occasionally swaps to third-person when following antagonists Marshall Hammond and The Shrike. Themes explored in the book include the decline of investigative journalism and the print-newspaper, the rise of fake news, the misogynistic incel movement, and the dangers of trafficking in DNA sequence data by an industry having no government oversight or regulations. The novel is a sequel to the events in Connelly's 2009 book The Scarecrow. It is the third novel featuring Jack McEvoy, a Los Angeles investigative reporter for the consumer watchdog news service Fair Warning, as well as former FBI agent Rachel Walling. Fair Warning is a 2020 thriller written by American author Michael Connelly.
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