Ashland, OR: Blackstone Publishing, (2022) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A dark thriller by this award winning writer, introducing NYPD Detective Nick Ryan - "When Ryan spots fellow officers spiriting a Black man away from a march protesting the police shooting of an unarmed man, he intervenes. That brings him to the attention of a shady character who identifies himself only as Joe and offers Ryan reassignment to a new unit charged with doing things 'that can't be done in the open' . . Ryan agrees, but the assignment turns hazardous when a cop hangout is bombed and Ryan starts to question Joe and his benefactors' motives. A book which captures the racial tensions of present-day New York City perfectly and offers a memorable, complicated hero in Ryan." SIGNED on the title page. 310 pp. ISBN: 978-1982627478.