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1) The force
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"A highly decorated NYPD detective at the head of an elite anti-gang task force risks betraying his colleagues, his city and the woman he loves when federal agents discover the corrupt activities that have enabled him to skim millions in drugs and cash."--
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"Every cop in the city knows his name, but no one says it out loud. In fact, they don't talk about him at all. He doesn't wear a uniform, but he is the most powerful cop in New York. Nick Ryan can find a criminal who's vanished. Or he can make a key witness disappear. He has cars, safe houses, money, and weapons hidden all over the city. He's the mayor's private cop, the fixer, the first call when the men and women who protect and serve are in trouble...
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This Is a Bust, the second novel by award-winning author Ed Lin, turns the conventions of hard-boiled pulp stories on their head by exploring the unexotic and very real complexities of New York City's Chinatown, circa 1976, through the eyes of a Chinese-American cop. A Vietnam vet and an alcoholic, Robert Chow's troubles are compounded by the fact that he's basically community-relations window-dressing for the NYPD: he's the only Chinese American...
5) Black sand
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A massacre at a Greek resort leads to an unlikely transatlantic partnership On a long overdue vacation, Maj. Andreas Vassos takes his family from Athens to a resort village on the Grecian coast, hoping for sun, surf, and a few days without worry. It's just the holiday he needs-until the family goes to get a treat and the crowded café is raked with gunfire. Acting on instinct, Vassos grabs a pistol from a murdered cop and chases after the killers....
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There's a secret war on the streets of the city. Only a New York cop can win it.
His claim to fame is finding guns on the bad guys, and Detective Second Grade Brian McKenna has just spotted the beard carrying a piece. What he doesn't know is that he's about to shoot his way into a war with a highly disciplined, well-armed enemy so treacherous, not even the NYPD knows they exist.
Exiled from the bright lights of Manhattan for breaking one too many...
8) Red Hook
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In the Edgar Award–nominated first novel of the Jack Leightner crime series, the Brooklyn homicide detective investigates a perplexing murder in dangerous terrain: the rundown neighborhood of his youth Unlike the other members of the elite Brooklyn South Homicide Task Force, Detective Jack Leightner prefers his murders baffling. He likes to lose himself in tough cases, and he has just caught a murder that will consume him like no other: an unidentified...
11) One red bastard
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In One Red Bastard, Ed Lin's thrilling sequel to the highly acclaimed Snakes Can't Run, “reminiscent of Elmore Leonard... Compulsively readable” (Don Lee), it's the fall of 1976. New York's Chinatown is in turmoil over news that Mao's daughter is seeking asylum in the U.S. The series hero Robert Chow is a neighborhood detective in training, and he is thrilled when his girlfriend Lonnie scores an interview with the Chinese representative of Mao's...
12) Justice
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When a vigilante known only as Justice begins killing off the lowlifes of New York, NYPD Detective First Grade Brian McKenna and his partner are put on the case, and find their investigation hindered by the city's support of the killer.
13) The protectors
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In the mountainous north of Spain, on a quiet Sunday morning, a Basque terrorist group kidnaps the country's wealthiest woman after a violent ambush along a winding country road. At the same time, in New York City, a murderous shootout alongside Central Park leaves two dead and Spain's ambassador to the United Nations held hostage. NYPD Detective First Grade Brian McKenna and his partner Cisco Sanchez (the self-described world's greatest detective)...
14) Hyde
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NYPD Detective Brian McKenna is back where he belongs-hunting down a mysterious killer who preys upon the city's most forgotten members. At first blush, it seems as if these homeless men have frozen to death on the city streets. But this succession of deaths seems too suspicious for McKenna to ignore.
McKenna makes some curious findings: all the victims were HIV-positive, and all were seen taking their last drink from a bottle of wine given them...
15) The heat of lies
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Julian Palmer novels volume 2
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Detective Julian Palmer needs help with her latest case--the murder of a well-liked husband and father--so when her mentor, a brilliant detective imprisoned for murder, is released, she reluctantly takes him on as an advisor.
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In this third novel in Gabriel Cohen's Edgar Award–nominated Jack Leightner crime series, the Brooklyn homicide detective investigates the serial killing of prostitutes in Crown Heights and the murder of a friend who ran afoul of Russian gangsters in Brighton Beach Jack Leightner's new partner is a rookie homicide detective, scared by death but ready to learn. His first case is a gruesome one: a strangled prostitute, hung from her neck in an imitation...
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"Albert Beauchamp disappeared just before Christmas in 1856. When he reappears more than a year later, he's in several pieces, packed in salt in a shipping crate in New Orleans. NYC inspectors Jasper Lightner and his partner, Hieronymus Law, are called in to investigate--but the further they dig into the wealthy financier's background, the dirtier the story gets. On the surface, Beauchamp had a lot of friends. But, as they discover, each had a good...
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"On 9/11 Lieutenant Brian Murphy, NYPD, ran back into the collapsing North Tower. He was off duty and had not returned home the night before. Three years later his father, retired Detective-Sergeant Jimmy Murphy, sets out to find the truth about his son, his family, and his country"--
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Foundlings volume 3
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Investigative genealogist Amelia Crenshaw solves clients' genetic puzzles, while hers remains shrouded in mystery. Now she suspects that the key to her birth parents' identities lies in an unexpected connection to a stranger who's hired her to find his long-lost daughter. Bracing herself for a shocking truth, Amelia is blindsided by a deadly one.
20) New York dead
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Everyone is always telling Stone Barrington he's too smart to be a cop, but it's pure luck that places him on the streets in the dead of night, just in time to witness the horrifying incident that turns his life inside out. He is suddenly on the front page of every New York newspaper, and his life is hopelessly entwined in the increasingly shocking life (and perhaps death) of Sasha Nijinsky, the country's hottest and most beautiful television anchorwoman....
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