Product Description: Brooklyn South homicide detective Jack Leightner is at home enjoying a quiet day off when a stranger appears at his door and completely overturns his understanding of his own past. The following day, what looks like a mundane killing in a Brooklyn deli takes a bizarre turn when a crew of Homeland Security agents suddenly show up wearing anti-radiation gear...read more

When a coffin containing the body of a boy with the letters G.I. written on his forehead drifts ashore in Red Hook, Detective Jack Leightner of the Brooklyn South Homicide Task Force is assigned to help investigate the case, following a trail that takes him into the darkest depths of New York's harbor world. By the author of Red Hook. 15,000 first printing.

Four neighbors share a courtyard in relative harmony until Jamel, a teenager who buys a big sound system, starts blasting gangster rap throughout the backyard gardens and pushes everyone to the breaking point.

Solving the murder of young Hispanic man becomes an obsession for Brooklyn homicide detective Jack Leightner, threatening his career and ultimately, his life.