In the shadows of unbearable tragedy, an unlikely killing machine begins a one-man war to bring a city to its knees—a battle that will touch the lives of its eight million citizens including:

 

• a writer on the verge of a breakthrough

• a charismatic ex-police commissioner—and the inside choice for the next mayor—on the edge of a breakdown

• a beautiful, sophisticated art dealer plumbing the depths of her own fierce sexuality

• a defense attorney who prefers murder trials because there’s one less witness

• an ex-addict who has turned being clean into a living, mopping up after New York’s nightlife

 

Pulsating with the lives of its denizens—bartenders and hookers, power brokers and politicos, cops and secretaries, editors and dreamers—Lawrence Block's electrifying new novel reveals the small town at the heart of the Big Apple in all its power, terror, and stark beauty.