ED MCBAIN

A comedian dies on national television in front of forty million viewers, and the detectives of the

When the body of a young Hispanic man is found in a tenement basement, the rope around his neck suggests a suicide. But the autopsy soon reveals the young man overdosed on heroin. He was a pusher--and now a thousand questions bear down on the detectives of the 87th Precinct.

When a client is murdered just before he's due to pay forty grand for a bean farm, lawyer Matthew...