The Bradys After the Bomb Throwers

A boy who stumbled into the wrong room. A detective hunting the wrong man. And a bomb that won't wait.

Seventeen-year-old Charley Brown has nobody. No family, no safety net, no uncle willing to claim him—just a messenger boy's cap and a city that doesn't care if he disappears.

When a routine delivery to Milwaukee Avenue goes wrong, Charley stumbles into the wrong building, falls through the wrong trapdoor, and lands at the feet of the most dangerous men in Chicago. The anarchists of the so-called Anarchists' League don't tolerate witnesses. And now Charley knows too much.

Forced to run errands for bomb-makers who could vanish him without a second thought, Charley fights to survive one night in a city seething with revolution. He trusts no one. He understands nothing of the languages swirling around him. And the one man who might save him—the legendary Old King Brady—is tangled in his own trap, hunting a traitor inside the very Secret Service office sworn to stop the League.

As Brady and his partner Alice close in on the conspiracy, they discover that the enemy wears a federal badge. The anarchists have eyes everywhere. And somewhere in the dark maze of Milwaukee Avenue warehouses, a messenger boy who never asked for any of this is running out of time.

If Brady can't untangle the web of lies before the League strikes, the bomb doesn't just threaten Chicago.

It buries everyone who got too close.

Can Old King Brady smash the Anarchists' League before the fuse runs out?