Justice
A Novel of the NYPD
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Publisher Description
Justice showcases fascinating investigative detail, wild action, and Dan Mahoney's trademark humor in a terrific police thriller.
New York City. A wealthy businessman meets a violent fate in his elegant, carefully-secured home in Queens. Two drug dealers are murdered in a Brooklyn no-tell motel room. Several men are found riddled with bullets and nails on a little-traveled road beneath FDR Drive. And soon thereafter, a church, a synagogue, and a mosque find bags of cash waiting at their doorsteps--all from a vigilante who signs himself "Justice."
NYPD Detective First Grade Brian McKenna and his partner, Cisco Sanchez (the self-described world's greatest detective), are assigned to find the elusive killer that all of New York City is rooting for, a man of supreme technical skills, physical power, and intelligence, who always seems to know every move the police will make before they make it. Justice is executing drug dealers, helping the police close unsolved cases, providing those in need with stolen drug money, and creating a nightmare for the police commissioner, the mayor, and the two detectives.
As McKenna and Sanchez work to try and outsmart the vigilante and discover his next victim, they also must find out who is helping Justice in his quest for revenge.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Ex-cop Mahoney's eighth masterful police procedural (after The Protectors) again brings together New York's most famous sleuth, the brilliant but unassuming Det. Brian McKenna, and his infamous sidekick, gifted but boorish Cisco Sanchez, who doesn't always play by the rules. Called back from their Florida vacation to investigate the assassinations of a Colombian drug lord and two of his legmen, McKenna and Sanchez arrive just in time to learn that the vigilante killer signing himself "Justice" is sending letters to a reporter that reveal hidden drug caches and plans to execute other drug dealers. Suspecting Justice may be a former cop, McKenna and Sanchez strike a deal with the reporter, agreeing to provide him with inside information about the case if he will keep them informed of the contents of Justice's letters. The executions continue and the case takes on a political dimension as the public sides with the vigilante for intervening where the law has been powerless. This hero worship is heightened when the vigilante gives millions of dollars in laundered drug money to religious orders. Suspecting his smug, egotistical partner may know more about the killer's identity than he is willing to share, McKenna is torn in his loyalties and increasingly frustrated. When the vigilante's identity is finally unveiled, a fast-moving series of shootouts and heart-wrenching decisions make for a spectacular climax. Mahoney is a genius at transforming the details of the workaday police grind into a spellbinding thriller, and he is in top form here. His characters are fully human, their moral quandaries wrenching.