Blue Eyes (Isaac Sidel Series #1)

by Jerome Charyn

Overview

A cop and his disgraced mentor attempt to bust a white slavery ring

Before Isaac Sidel adopts him, Manfred Coen is a mutt. A kid from the Bronx, he joins the police academy after his father’s suicide leaves him directionless, and is trudging along like any other cadet when first deputy Sidel, the commissioner’s right hand man, comes looking for a young cop with blue eyes to infiltrate a ring of Polish smugglers. He chooses Coen, and asks the cadet to join his department after he finishes the academy. Working under Sidel means fast promotions, plush assignments, and, when a corruption scandal topples his mentor, the resentment of every rank-and-file detective on the force.
 
Now just an ordinary cop, Coen hears word that his old mentor has a line on a human trafficking operation. When Sidel’s attempt at infiltration fails, he sends in Coen. For Coen, it’s a shot to prove himself and redeem his mentor, but it could cost the blue-eyed cop his life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781453290002
Publisher:	Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
Publication date:	10/30/2012
Series:	Isaac Sidel Series , #1
Pages:	242
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Jerome Charyn (b. 1937) is the critically acclaimed author of nearly fifty books. Born in the Bronx, he attended Columbia College. After graduating, he took a job as a playground director and wrote in his spare time, producing his first novel, a Lower East Side fairytale called Once Upon a Droshky, in 1964.
 
In 1974, Charyn published Blue Eyes, his first Isaac Sidel mystery. This first in the so-called Sidel quartet introduced the eccentric, near-mythic Sidel, and his bizarre cast of sidekicks. Although he completed the quartet with Secret Isaac (1978), Charyn followed the character through Under the Eye of God. Charyn, who divides his time between New York and Paris, is also accomplished at table tennis, and once ranked amongst France’s top 10 percent of ping-pong players.

Editorial Reviews

"Magic-making with an absolutely singular and piercing voice.” —Chicago Sun-Times
 
“A complete, dark, moving vision.” —James Ellroy
 
“Charyn has trained his prose and makes it perform tricks. It’s a New York prose, street smart, sly and full of lurches, like a series of subway stops on the way to hell.” —The New York Times
 
 
“Jerome Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature.” —Michael Chabon
 
“A contemporary American Balzac.” —Newsday
 
“Absolutely unique among American writers.” —Los Angeles Times
 
“He writes like greased lightning.” —Time Out
 
“Jerome Charyn is a realist of the urban nightmare.” —Chicago Tribune
 
“For a couple of decades now, Jerome Charyn has been remaking the detective story.” —The Washington Post Book World

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