The novel by contemporary American writer Sarah Paretsky “Deathstroke” is a detective investigation into the activities of the Chicago industrial mafia, brilliantly conducted by female detective V. Ay. Warshawski.

The heroine of the novel “Deathstroke” V. Ay. Warsaw is a rare profession for a lady - a private detective. Deciding to relax and unwind a little, she comes to the northern suburbs of Chicago, where she spent her childhood and where she has all old acquaintances. But it was not there. Chicago is an industrial monster, a giant octopus, a city of financial mafia and banditry, where industry aces casually shuffle the lives of ordinary enterprise employees. Victoria has to face the criminal scams of chemical corporations that are poisoning the water of the Great Lakes, and at the same time, unwanted witnesses to their machinations...