โ Scribed by Patterson, James; Roughan, Howard
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
EDITORIAL REVIEW:
New York's Lombardo's Steak House is famous for three reasons--the menu, the clientele, and now, the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer. Effortlessly, the assassin slips through the police's fingers, and his absence sparks a blaze of accusations about who ordered the hit. **The bad**Seated at a nearby table, reporter Nick Daniels is conducting a once-in-a-lifetime interview with a legendary baseball bad-boy. In the chaos, he accidentally captures a key piece of evidence that lands him in the middle of an all-out war between Italian and Russian mafia forces. NYPD captains, district attorneys, mayoral candidates, media kingpins, and one shockingly beautiful magazine editor are all pushing their own agendas--on both sides of the law.**And the dead**Back off--*or die--*is the clear message Nick receives as he investigates for a story of his own.Heedless, and perhaps in love with his beautiful editor, Nick endures humiliation, threats, violence, and worse in a thriller that overturns every expectation and finishes with the kind of flourish only James Patterson knows.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
Two years ago, Paige Wilson watched helplessly as her brother Ryan was shot, right on her doorstep. He survived the attack, but never fully recovered from the trauma. Stuck in a wheelchair, Ryan refuses to accept the life of a paraplegic. His idea of fun is coming up with new ways to torme
### Review ACCLAIM FOR JAMES PATTERSON: "The prolific Patterson seems unstoppable." (***USA Today*** ) "James Patterson knows how to sell thrills and suspense in clean, unwavering prose." (***People*** ) "Patterson's novels are sleek entertainment machines, the Porsches of commercial fiction,
**The good** New York's Lombardo's Steak House is famous for three reasons--the menu, the clientele, and now, the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer. Effortlessly, the assassin slips through the police's fingers, and his absence sparks a blaze of accusations about who ordered the hit. **The
EDITORIAL REVIEW: New York's Lombardo's Steak House is famous for three reasons--the menu, the clientele, and now, the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer. Effortlessly, the assassin slips through the police's fingers, and his absence sparks a blaze of accusations about who ordered the hi
### Review ACCLAIM FOR JAMES PATTERSON: "The prolific Patterson seems unstoppable." (**_USA Today_** ) "James Patterson knows how to sell thrills and suspense in clean, unwavering prose." (**_People_** ) "Patterson's novels are sleek entertainment machines, the Porsches of commercial