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Random House
January 2006
Featuring: Fritz Malone
336 pages ISBN: 0400064252 Hardcover
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Thriller | Suspense
It’s a beautiful Thanksgiving morning in New York City.
Perfect day for a parade, and Fritz Malone just happens to
have drifted up Central Park West to take a look at the
floats. Across the crowd-filled street he sees a gunman on
a low wall, taking aim with a shiny black Beretta. Seconds
later, the air is filled with bullets and blood. Fritz isn’t one to stand around and watch. A child of
Hell’s Kitchen and the bastard son of a beloved former
police commissioner, Fritz is all too familiar with the
city’s rougher side. As the gunman flees into the park,
Fritz runs after him. What he doesn’t know is that he is
also running into one of the most shocking and treacherous
episodes of his life. Though Fritz assumed that chasing down bad guys is
perfectly legal, the cops hustle him from the scene and
deliver him to the office of the current commissioner, who
informs Fritz that someone dubbed “Nightmare” has been
taunting the city’s leaders for weeks, warning of an
imminent attack on the citizenry. What’s worse, Nightmare
has already let the officials know that the parade gunman
was a mere foot soldier and that there’s more carnage to
come unless the city meets his impossible demands. The
pols don’t dare share this information with anyone–not
even the NYPD. What they need for this job is an outside
man. And in Fritz they think they’ve got one. Racing against the tightest of clocks, Fritz finds himself
confounded by Nightmare’s multiple masks and messengers.
The killer is simultaneously everywhere and nowhere. But
as Fritz’s frantic investigation takes him from a convent
in the Bronx to a hookers’ haven in central Brooklyn, the
story behind the story–complete with wicked secrets on
both sides of the law–begins to emerge. As Fritz zeroes in
on the terrible, gruesome truth, the killer retaliates by
making things personal, forcing Fritz to grapple with his
deepest fear: sometimes nightmares really do come true.
In his brilliantly paced and stunningly original debut,
Richard Hawke delivers a tale of flawed and unforgettable
people operating at the ends of their ropes. It’s literary
suspense that doesn’t let go until the last page.
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