The concluding volume of the "Gracie's Ghost" series is a story about the price one pays for a life time of desperate delusions. When he made the trip to Chicago to see Gracie, Steeg Patterson felt a great deal older than his fifty-eight years. He told his wife it was just another business trip. He lied. It didn't matter. One way or another, he was going to end the torment that had plagued his life, torment of his own making.