Book Log 2012 #27: We All Fall Down by Michael Harvey

This installment in the Michael Kelly series pick up where The Third Rail left off, as one of the light bulbs full of a deadly pathogen finally falls and breaks, releasing its contents in the Chicago subway. As the bodies start to mount, Kelly has to juggle finding the perpetrator of this crime with a mayor who wants to downplay things to protect his own image and power and a collection of feds who worry about the security implications.

I was concerned after reading The Third Rail that pursuing this story would water down the Chicago-centric aspects and make the series less enjoyable. There was still plenty of Chicago color, and Kelly continues to hold his own as a character, but I'm still a little worried that if he (and the series) continues to move in circles with the feds that the series will change in a negative way. But we're not quite there yet, thankfully.