Devlin
Published on 2. December 2014
342 pages
978-1-4976-8093-7 (ISBN)
Description
A sober cop's life is upended when his powerful ex-brother-in-law is murdered
Quitting drinking may have saved Frank Devlin's life, but it killed his career. When the NYPD detective got sober, he also stopped taking bribes, and his rise through the ranks slowed to a crawl. After thirteen years of working the drug-plagued Lower East Side, he has a new relationship and a modicum of inner peace-both of which are threatened when Devlin's past comes back to destroy him.
A crazed junkie guns down a Senate hopeful and his mistress, and the police suspect that Devlin may be involved for two reasons: the candidate was once his brother-in-law, and the junkie was his longtime snitch. To clear his name, Devlin must sort out a murderous conspiracy that will make him wish he had never climbed onto the wagon.
Quitting drinking may have saved Frank Devlin's life, but it killed his career. When the NYPD detective got sober, he also stopped taking bribes, and his rise through the ranks slowed to a crawl. After thirteen years of working the drug-plagued Lower East Side, he has a new relationship and a modicum of inner peace-both of which are threatened when Devlin's past comes back to destroy him.
A crazed junkie guns down a Senate hopeful and his mistress, and the police suspect that Devlin may be involved for two reasons: the candidate was once his brother-in-law, and the junkie was his longtime snitch. To clear his name, Devlin must sort out a murderous conspiracy that will make him wish he had never climbed onto the wagon.
More details
Person
Roderick Thorp is the author of
The Detective,
Rainbow Drive, and
Nothing Lasts Forever, the basis for the movie
Die Hard. He has worked as a private detective and done extensive crime reporting, including a twenty-one-part series on cocaine traffic in Southern California, which was published in the
Los Angeles Herald Examiner. Thorp's other novels include
Into the Forest,
Dionysus,
Slaves,
The Circle of Love,
Westfield,
Jenny and Barnum,
Devlin, and
River.
Content
- Intro
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- NEW YORK CITY MONDAY, JUNE 30, 1986
- 4:22 P.M. .
- 5:04 P.M. .
- 7:50 P.M. .
- 11:21 P.M. .
- TUESDAY, JULY 1
- 12:14 A.M. .
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- WEDNESDAY, JULY 2
- 12:22 A.M. .
- 6:25 A.M. .
- 11:03 A.M. .
- 11:49 A.M. .
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- THURSDAY, JULY 3 .
- 12:31 A.M. .
- 4:46 A.M. .
- 10:46 A.M. .
- 12:27 P.M. .
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- FRIDAY, JULY 4 .
- 4:27 A.M. .
- 9:30 A.M. .
- 11:43 A.M. .
- 12:34 P.M. .
- 2:58 P.M. .
- 5:06 P.M. .
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- 7:54 P.M. .
- 8:34 P.M. .
- About the Author
- Copyright Page
