From the critically acclaimed and award-winning author
comes a gritty, atmospheric new series about the
other side of Long Island, far from the wealth of the
Hamptons, where real people live—and die.
Gus Murphy thought he had the world all figured out. A
retired Suffolk County cop, Gus had everything a man could
want: a great marriage, two kids, a nice house, and the rest
of his life ahead of him. But when tragedy strikes, his life
is thrown into complete disarray. In the course of a single
deadly moment, his family is blown apart and he is
transformed from a man who believes he understands
everything into a man who understands nothing.
Divorced and working as a courtesy van driver for the
run-down hotel in which he has a room, Gus has settled into
a mindless, soulless routine that barely keeps his grief at
arm’s length. But Gus’s comfortable waking trance comes to
an end when ex-con Tommy Delcamino asks him for help. Four
months earlier, Tommy’s son T.J.’s battered body was
discovered in a wooded lot, yet the Suffolk County PD
doesn’t seem interested in pursuing the killers. In
desperation, Tommy seeks out the only cop he ever
trusted—Gus Murphy.
Gus reluctantly agrees to see what he can uncover. As he
begins to sweep away the layers of dust that have collected
over the case during the intervening months, Gus finds that
Tommy was telling the truth. It seems that everyone involved
with the late T.J Delcamino—from his best friend, to a gang
enforcer, to a mafia capo, and even the police—has something
to hide, and all are willing to go to extreme lengths to
keep it hidden. It’s a dangerous favor Gus has taken on as
he claws his way back to take a place among the living,
while searching through the sewers for a killer.
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