Before there was Lisbeth Salander, before there was Stephanie Plum, there was V.I. Warshawski. Sara Paretsky takes her legendary hero? Victoria Iphigenia by birth, V.I. by profession, and Vic to her friends?on her first case out of Chicago, when the hunt for a vanished film student and a faded Hollywood star leads her to Kansas. Accompanied by her dog, V.I. tracks the pair through a university town, across fields dotted by Cold War-era missile silos . . . and into a past riven by long-simmering racial tensions. She hopes her search will yield the key to the mysteries of the present but every answer V.I. finds