In Wisdom's Mind

1972:It’s Christmastime in the nation’s capital. Watergate is starting to brew. The Redskins are on their way to the Super Bowl. But beneath all that roiling, high-stakes drama also lies a city riddled with senseless and violent crime. It's a world all too familiar to homicide detective, Joey Wisdom. After twenty years working the D.C. beat, the beleaguered and calloused detective has seen it all.That is until the wintry early morning discovery of a young investment banker lying face-up, in a foot of fresh snow—a muddied black hole square-center in his forehead. Murdered. The only clue; a telling trail of snow prints leading away from the body.As Wisdom digs, he quickly realizes this case has more left turns than right answers. Each clue is met with a new twist. Each suspect, a dead end. Is it a botched robbery? Jilted lover’s revenge? Or something more sinister?In search of the killer…or killers, Wisdom moves through the tony neighborhoods of Georgetown and Dupont Circle and into the nefarious inner workings of the CIA. And along the way, Wisdom keeps coming across the name of one, Albert Poeltz—a quietly quirky retired professor who has his own tortured story to tell. A story, Detective Wisdom is going to help finish. Like it or not.