Brooklyn. Early June. A man strolls into a candy store, pulls out a sawed-off shotgun and blows away two people: owner Yetta Zimmerman and her customer, NYPD Lt.Joe Gallagher. Suddenly it is a very hot summer for Detective Lt.Tony Scanlon, for this is just the first in a series of brutal, inexplcable hits that lead Scanlon on a journey into the nightmare universe that cops and criminals cohabit...and deep into the private tragedies of his life...than deeper still into his other life, the job, where he uncovers a frightening hidden world riddled with suspects in blue. But it all begins with the puzzling double murder and a moment of shock where Scanlon opens the dead lieutenant's locker... 1988. 372 pages. PB in good condition.
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