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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.
Random House
January 2006
Featuring: Fritz Malone
336 pages ISBN: 1400064252 Hardcover
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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.
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