WINDY CITY – Novel by Scott Simon

He is one of America’s most admired writers and broadcasters (he has won every major award in broadcasting). Scott Simon was born in Chicago, Illinois, grewing up in major cities across the United States and Canada, (including Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Montreal, Cleveland, and Washington, D.C.). His books include Home and Away: Memoir of a Fan; Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball; Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption (about his experiences adopting two daughters); and the novels Pretty Birds and Windy City. His hobbies are books, theater, ballet, British comedy, Mexican cooking and “bleeding for the Chicago Cubs.”

WINDY CITY. In a novel as brawling and boisterous as Chicago itself, the writer delivers a tale both laugh-out-loud funny and deeply moving, capturing the multiethnic tumult of big city politics. The mayor of Chicago is found in his office late at night, murdered, facedown in a pizza. Since they’ve been busy fighting international terrorism, they’re behind on their school assignments. Their parents tell them if they don’t get caught up, it’s off to boarding school. But who can concentrate on homework when there is a mystery to solve and international terrorism to thwart? Angela is obsessed with finding out more about the mysterious Boone. They plan to unleash a chemical weapon over the skies of Chicago. And it’s up to Angela and Q, along with Boone and Croc, to stop them. https://www.amazon.com/Windy-City-Scott-Simon/dp/081297669X