Jack Rios - The Complete Case Files

Jack Rios grew up in El Sereno, East Los Angeles — the son of a Cuban hustler who'd fled Havana and a Mexican farmworker's daughter who raised her children like soldiers. He didn't join a gang. He joined the LAPD, made detective young, and earned a gold shield that eventually took him east to the NYPD. Across the years and the coasts, the partners changed, the captains changed, the city changed — but the work never did.

This omnibus collects all ten Jack Rios case files in one volume, presented in their original publication order rather than reshuffled into strict chronology. Diamond district homicides, political corruption reaching into a mayor's reelection campaign, organized crime with roots in Havana and Brighton Beach, and the quiet domestic cases that never make the papers but never really leave a detective either — ten different seasons of one man's career, in the order they were written.

Read them start to finish, or jump to whichever case catches your eye. Jack never much cared about being understood in sequence. He only ever cared about the case in front of him.