A Long Cold Fall (Cooper Macleish, No 1)

This first novel in the Cooper MacLeish series introduces the gutsy Vietnam vet and philosopher who surveys the mean streets of Chicago from his cab. Vivian Horstmann, the lost love from Cooper's postwar past, is dead. Cooper reads that her long, cold fall was a suicide, but he has his doubts. When unknown hit men try to end her son's life along with Cooper's own, he snaps into urban survival mode to try to save them both and get to the truth.