The Blue Mirage
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
Fraleigh is the new acting police chief of the turbulent
Silicon City police force. His first SWAT strike is
a disaster, a psycho sex killer named Zorro is on the
loose, and Fraleighs hot affair with a lady politician
threatens to become a media bonfire, with Fraleigh as
the marshmallow.
In short, Chief Fraleigh wouldnt mind
becoming invisible.
Instead, he ends up at the seedy Blue Mirage, where a
routine collar explodes into a big-time sting tied up
with millions, murder, and political mayhem.
Its a case that propels Fraleigh to his hometown, the
Big Apple, where he confronts his troubled cop
brotherand an old NYPD scandal that wont die,
but might just kill him. . . .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Finnbar Fraleigh returns (after Fatal Command ) as Silicon City's acting police chief in this interesting, realistic yarn. Fraleigh wants the appointment as permanent top cop, but isn't sure if he will win enough votes from the California city's supervisors. One has a brother, Richard Bartlow, whom a sting operation at the Blue Mirage Bar has tied to an imminent sale of stolen bonds. Another, who is also Fraleigh's lover, has surreptitious dealings with Supervisor Bartlow. Fraleigh travels to New York to interrogate a broker who probably stole the bonds, to find out why his lover has flown there, and to help his brother, a cop named Jack, tone down his drinking. The passages explaining Fraleigh's departure from New York years before and his horrendous relationship with Jack yield McNamara's strongest writing. But despite absorbing details and several vivid players, the denouement is uninspired.
