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Wealthy businessman Brendan Quillian is on trial for the strangulation death of his wife Amanda. Alexandra Cooper is the Assistant DA who is the lead attorney in the case, appears against Quillian, who, of course, has a very expensive defense attorney on his side. Brendan was a poor scholarship boy. He was very intelligent, so he was given scholarships to all the best Catholic schools in New York. Amanda was the daughter of an extremely wealthy New York real estate tycoon, so of course, she went to the female equivalent of all the best private Catholic schools in New York. On her father's death, she inherited the business which Brendan, as CEO, ran. Alex has Amanda's best friend on the stand. Her testimony seems to be going well. Apparently Amanda was getting ready to leave Brendan, which would give Brendan a reason to kill her. No wife, no job, no uppity lifestyle. But on cross-examination, the friend admits to have slept with Brendan, which, of course, destroys her credibility. Meanwhile, 600 feet below ground, a massive explosion involves the new water tunnel being built from the upstate reservoirs to feed the needs of the City. There is no water in New York. It all has to be piped in. If the two old water tunnels were destroyed, Manhattan would collapse. So it is serious when there are underground explosions, since all services run underground in Manhattan. Brendan came from a family of sandhogs – the men who built underground New York, starting during the 19th century, when poor Irish immigrants flooded into the City needing work. They built the Brooklyn Bridge, working in caissons sunk into the bed of the East River, and everything since. Jobs are passed from father to son, and Brendan was a disappointment to his family, opting not to go underground. But all the other men in the family are sandhogs, and one is killed in the explosion, As usual, the case is solved but always with the help of some bit of New York exotica – in this case a fort and the tunnels. A twisted chain of old rivalries also has to be disentangled first.
Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, December 2006
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