In Nomine Patris
“A boisterous, stylish novel about fathers, sons, and the messiness of American life.”
— Kirkus Reviews
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In Nomine Patris
At the peak of his career, Dan Hurley, powerful Chicago politician, master of clout, discovers a conscience, wises up, and comes to regret his life’s work running and profiting from a political machine he has come to despise. But he has a plan.
On a hill in the country far from the city, where the coyotes howl, he hatches a rebellion, to throw a wrench into the machine, and salvage his reputation, his son’s respect, and what is left of his life. But is it too late? As Dan Hurley discovers, there is danger in rocking the boat, and stepping on powerful toes, and help is unlikely from his prodigal son, Billy, who has fled the city for a room above a bar in a lost river town, having written his father and his politics off long ago.
But maybe there is hope, that Billy might get pulled back into his father’s world, unravel the mystery, and take up the mantle of the father he loathes. Only Billy’s testimony at trial will determine whether Dan Hurley’s dreams, of reforming himself, his son, and a big city machine, will come true.
Available in Little Free Libraries on Milwaukee’s East Side and online bookstores.
About the Author
Michael Casey is an attorney who has worked for the City of Chicago, the State of Illinois, and in private practice representing mayors, governors, city and state officials and agencies, and government organizations, for thirty-seven years. For several years, he had a seat at the table for all municipal legislation for the City of Chicago, from drafting to mayoral approval to passage in City Council. He has tried numerous cases before state and federal courts and has argued before state supreme courts and federal circuit courts of appeals.
He has an insider’s knowledge of Chicago politics and the working of city government, which drives the intrigue and mystery of the story told in his novel In Nomine Patris. His love of the wide-open hills of the Driftless region in southwestern Wisconsin offered an outsider’s perspective on his insider’s work and inspired his writing about the hopes and dreams of the memorable characters who face death and love and renewal and reform and ultimately rebirth in the final courtroom scene in In Nomine Patris.
Mr. Casey currently resides with his wife on the East Side of Milwaukee. His first book, Passage, was written under the pen name of Vince Hurley.
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