This story was written and published in the SISTERS ON THE CASE anthology edited by Sara Paretsky (Signet, 2007). I originally wrote this as an exercise to prepare for writing SET THE NIGHT ON FIRE. This story, like the longer thriller, takes place - in part—during the Chicago Democratic Convention of 1968. But it differs from the novel in that it's written from a Chicago cop's point of view rather than the demonstrators'. Still, I hope that, like a delicious hors d'oeuvre, it whets your appetite by capturing the passion, the hope, and the fury of that era.
