โ Scribed by David C. Taylor
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Night Work: the second book in David C. Taylor's transporting historical crime fiction series.
Michael Cassidy, a New York cop plagued by dreams that sometimes come true, escorts a prisoner accused of murder to Havana on the cusp of Fidel Castro's successful revolution against the Batista dictatorship. After delivering the man to La Cabaรฑa prison and rescuing Dylan McCue, a Russian KGB agent and his now-married former lover, from her scheduled execution, Cassidy returns to New York and retreats into the comforts of alcohol and sex.
The arrival of Fidel Castro in New York three months later complicates the cop's life once more. Cassidy's investigation of a young man's murder in Central Park is interrupted when he is assigned to Castro's protective detail.
Castro has many enemies. American mobsters who have been run out of Havana, businessmen who worry about their investments in Cuba, and members of Batista's secret police all want him dead. Cassidy is already...
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
### About the Author Greg F. Gifune's critically acclaimed work has received multiple recommendations for the Bram Stoker Award and the International Horror Guild Award, as well as a nomination for the British Fantasy Award. His short fiction has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies
In the secret worlds of organized crime and the independent professional wrestling circuit, no one is immune to the con, the violence, the lust and the darkness. How far would you go for money and power? Who would you betray? How much would you sacrifice? Frank Ponte is about to find outโฆ Night
### About the Author Greg F. Gifune's critically acclaimed work has received multiple recommendations for the Bram Stoker Award and the International Horror Guild Award, as well as a nomination for the British Fantasy Award. His short fiction has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies
Award-winning author of the acclaimed Alex McKnight series Steve Hamilton delivers his eagerly awaited, breakaway thriller with _Night Work_. Joe Trumbull is not a man who scares easily. As a juvenile probation officer in Kingston, New York, he's half cop, half social worker to the most high-ri
**Night Work** Kate and her partner, Al Hawkin, are called to a scene of carefully executed murder: the victim is a muscular man, handcuffed and strangled, a stun gun's faint burn on his chest and candy in his pocket. The likeliest person to want him dead, his often-abused wife, is meek and frail--
-- From the Paperback edition.