"A powerfully haunting book." — Wall Street Journal
Bronx Angel
While New York City digs out from a freak April snowstorm a young officer is found dead in the Bronx, his pants
pulled down around his knees, his throat slashed. Nearby a crowd has gathered. Not to witness the murder scene, but to see an
apparition of the Virgin Mary on an icy wall.
Anthony Ryan and his partner, the gladhanding, flawed, and brilliant Joe Gregory, are working out
of police headquarters. In the frigid, miraculous Bronx the death of a policeman will
bring heavy heat from the brass, who want the case closed quickly and quietly, and from
street-level cops, who want revenge. But Ryan and Gregory have both survived too much
alcohol, too much violence, and too much departmental politics to lose their cool.
Retracing the last hours of the dead cop's life, Ryan and Gregory
move through a world of streetwalkers on their "strolls" and transvestites who
gather at steamy after-hours clubs. Yet every turn they take brings the two men back to
the NYPD: to a tough-talking cop and his hard, blonde girlfriend.
Doing a job that gets in the way of a life, Ryan decides to shake
loose a nest of crooks with badges, even as his wife packs his suitcase for a trip to
Delaware, where their daughter is getting married for the third time. Back in New York, he
and Gregory will have to face the men they've nailed, the pain they've caused, and the one piece of the puzzle that still hasn't been found.
Bronx Angel is a riveting murder story and a
gritty, authentic portrait of a "cop's knowledge" — the knowledge that tells
you how to decipher a murder scene, how to beat a traffic jam, and what lies to tell your commanding officer or wife.
From late-night talk in cop bars to the haunting sounds that come
over a car radio, from the spectacle of a battered homeless man who lives to fight
policemen to the fresh-faced young recruits in sweatshirts and jeans, Bronx Angel
weaves together an unforgettable portrait of men and women on the job — and the dangerous
games that sometimes make them heroes, sometimes make them dirty, and sometimes get them killed.
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