Dreadful Summit

A teenage boy sets out to avenge his father in this noir novel from the author of Specialty of the House.

Every sports fan in New York knows Al Judge, the hard—bitten reporter whose column is the scourge of gamblers, gangsters, and corrupt players across the city. Sixteen—year—old George LaMain is Judge's biggest fan—until the night when his own father becomes the target of the journalist’s attacks, taken down in a public spectacle of violent humiliation.

Reeling from a moment that upends h...