EBOOK
Pages
278
Year
2012
Language
English

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A month before he becomes New York City's mayor, Sidel confronts a gang of baseball-loving racists For the first time in his adult life, Isaac Sidel is no longer a cop. He has moved beyond the halls of One Police Plaza, and is about to take residence in Gracie Mansion, after winning New York's mayoral election in a landslide. Unable to bear his downtown apartment without his girlfriend-who is in Europe confronting her Nazi-tinged past-the increasingly paranoid mayor-elect has set up shop in a homeless shelter under the name Geronimo Jones. His aides roust him from his hiding spot and have returned him to work when he gets a call from the shelter: Geronimo Jones is dead.   A gang of white supremacists roams the city, murdering shelter residents and marking them with Sidel's alias. They leave notes with each victim, signing them with the names of nineteenth-century baseball players. Mayors don't go armed, but Sidel isn't the mayor yet. He and his Glock will settle this problem before he takes his oath of office.

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"The joyous weirdness of Charyn's idiosyncratic New York City can't be described, it must be experienced."
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"Jerome Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature."
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"A pace that makes MTV seem slow . . . clever deduction . . . great literary farce."
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