Book description
With his wife Maxine out of town, Artie Cohen is alone in Manhattan
when his nephew Billy Farone is released for a couple of weeks from
the young offenders' institution where he has been since he stabbed
Heshey Shank to death. Artie is the one Billy wants to come home to,
the only person Billy cares about, the man Billy wants to be.
Now a handsome, intelligent and funny boy of fourteen, Billy seems
to be cured, to be free of whatever it was - sickness, evil - that
made him kill Shank. Artie believes, wants desperately to believe,
that Billy is OK. But from the moment a small plane crashes on to the
beach at Coney Island, bombs go off in London, and New York is shaken
out of the sense that the bad times are over, Artie begins to wonder.
There are signs that Heshey Shank's family want Billy locked up for
good. And Billy's mother doesn't want him coming home.
Then bodies begin to appear and Artie, up against a brick wall of
his own hope and despair, doesn't know what or whom to believe ...
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
previous 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.
