Book description
Presenting Artie Cohen, Reggie Nadelson's streetsmart, good-looking
New York cop, with a supporting cast that includes Artie's glamorous
girl Lily Hanes, and his gnarly superior Sonny Lippert. Russian by
birth, Artie has a taste for girls and jazz and a secret past. In
Red Mercury Blues he has scarcely returned from a month's
leave and thoughts of quitting his job when he becomes involved with a
case that drags him painfully back into that past.
His investigations take him first into the heart of the Brighton
Beach Russian mafia, and then deeper into the terrifying world of
atomic smuggling and the secrets of the lethal but elusive substance
known as Red Mercury.
A journalist and documentary film maker, Reggie Nadelson is a New
Yorker who also makes her home in London. She is the author of six
novels featuring the detective Artie Cohen ('the detective every woman
would like to find in her bed' Guardian), most recently
Red Hook.
Her non-fiction book
Comrade Rockstar
, the story of the American who became the biggest rock star in the
Soviet Union, is to be made into a film starring Tom Hanks.
