Night Watch
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
"Fans of James R. Benn’s “Billy Boyle” novels will appreciate this fast-paced, intense story" – Library Journal Starred Review
"David Taylor's writing is simply superb, perfectly capturing the noir atmosphere of the times, and sweeping the reader through the storyline until the final page. The originators of the genre, Hammett and Chandler, would have been well pleased." Jim Napier, Reviewing the Evidence
In 1950s New York, Detective Michael Cassidy investigates a number of bizarre deaths while trying to avoid being assassinated himself.
New York, 1956. A couple walking through Central Park on a fall evening are confronted by a hansom cab driver, only to kill him and casually walk away. Who are the couple and did they know the man?
A man commits suicide by throwing himself through a hotel window. His colleagues claim he was depressed - but is there more to it than that?
Before Detective Michael Cassidy even begins investigating these cases, he is threatened by an unknown man – the reasons for which are unclear.
Are all three incidents connected? If so, how, and will Cassidy live long enough to find out before his would-be assassin claims his life?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in New York City in 1956, Taylor's gripping third thriller featuring Det. Michael Cassidy of the NYPD (after 2016's Night Work) opens with a cold-blooded murder. Late one night, a homeless person follows a married couple, Karl and Magda Brandt, into Central Park. After a heated confrontation, Magda coolly sticks a hat pin into the back of the man's neck and watches him die before she and Karl walk away. At first, the authorities shrug off the death as a possible heart attack. When a chemist throws himself out his hotel room window, his death is pegged as a suicide. As Cassidy looks deeper into the two cases, however, he begins to see a disturbing connection. The relationship between the Brandts and their victim gradually emerges as Cassidy and his reporter friend, Rhonda Raskin, pursue a story at great personal risk that turns out to have its roots in the Cold War. Taylor does a fine job of summoning up a bygone New York with all its fascinating cultural and political shadings.
