Book description
A year after ex-NYPD detectives and former enemies Joe Serpe and Bob
Healy teamed up to solve the murder of a metnally challenged young man
who worked at Joe's company--and prevented the Russian Mafia from
infiltrating the home heating oil business on Long Island--they are
faced with an even more heinous series of crimes.
Five oil truck drivers have been robbed and shot to death, their
lifeless bodies left to bleed out on the cold and loveless suburban
streets. The killer should have chosen his victims more wisely,
because the fourth victim, Rusty Monaco, was another retired NYPD
detective, one who had saved Joe Serpe's life while they were both
still on the job.
Called a hard-boiled poet by NPR's Maureen Corrigan, Reed
Farrel Coleman is the former executive vice president of Mystery
Writers of America. He has published twelve novels in three series,
and one stand-alone with award-winning Irish author Ken Bruen. His
books have been translated into seven languages, and the Moe Prager
character in his current series is one of the most engaging in crime
fiction. "His bone-deep world weariness and mordant sense of
humor should enthrall lovers of old-school, tough-talking, loner
private eyes," says Booklist.
Reed is a three-time winner of the Shamus Award for Best Detective
Novel of the Year. He has also received the Barry and Anthony Awards,
and has been twice nominated for the Edgar Award. He was the editor of
the anthology Hard Boiled Brooklyn, and his short fiction and
essays have appeared in Wall Street Noir, The Darker Mask, These
Guns For Hire, Brooklyn Noir 3, Damn Near Dead, and other publications.
Reed is an adjunct professor at Hofstra University, teaching writing
classes in mystery fiction and the novel.
His standalone novel, GUN CHURCH, is exclusive to Audible.
com, and his seventh Moe Prager novel (HURT MACHINE) has been
winning accolades from the likes of Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and others.
