Dead End Game

by Christopher Newman

Overview

Acclaimed for his authentic Precinct novels, author Christopher Newman presents another thriller starring Detective Lieutenant Joe Dante and his partner, Jumbo Richardson, of the NYPD.

As powerful as a nine-millimeter and as dramatic as the New York skyline, Dead End Game is a hard-hitting tale of life on the force-and death on the streets...

When a major-league pitcher is found dead of an overdose just before the last game of the league playoffs, the first assumption is suicide. Joe Dante and Jumbo Richardson think otherwise. And their investigation reveals that behind the all-American game lies a world of dirty money and deceit-and a cast of suspects who don't hesitate to play hardball.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781612329574
Publisher:	Speaking Volumes
Publication date:	04/04/2014
Series:	Lt. Joe Dante , #7
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.72(d)

About the Author

Born in San Francisco, California, Christopher Newman wrote the first draft of his third published novel, Manana Man, while in residence in Cali, Colombia his senior year in college. At 27, he moved to New York City, working as a trim carpenter for five years in Manhattan before publishing his first Joe Dante novel, Mid-Town South, in 1985. When that title met with considerable commercial success, his publisher convinced him to turn his protagonist into a series character. Eight more Joe Dante novels followed, all making various national best seller lists. Mid-Town North, published in 1991, was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award by the Mystery Writers of America. Chains of Command, left unfinished at the time of best-selling author William Caunitz' death in 1998, was completed by Mr. Newman at the estate's request. It was named a 1999 New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

Editorial Reviews

This seventh entry in Newman's Joe Dante/NYPD series ( Precinct Command ) is the first to appear in hardcover, and it's a corker. Kansas City Royals rookie pitcher and phenom Willie Cintron looks as if he's going to knock the Yankees out of the American League playoffs--until he's found dead of a heroin overdose on the morning of the final game. The accepted wisdom is that Cintron's background (the mean streets of Washington Heights and a slew of drug-dealing friends and relatives) caught up with him, but readers know straight off that he was murdered, and soon enough a Daily News columnist, insisting that the ballplayer was clean, is raising enough pressure to bring Detective Lieutenant Dante and his partner, Jumbo Richardson, on to the case. In short order, the cops are in the thick of drug users, drug dealers grand and petty, a ring of car thieves, an assortment of media types and two femmes who are very fatales . The brisk action includes violence, some gore, more murder, interaction among the NYPD, DEA, FBI and New Jersey state cops and a dose of NYPD internal politics. It's all buoyed by the gritty feel of the city, the way cops talk and think and even drive. Readers may guess quickly which woman is the more lethal but, even so, they won't be disappointed by this fast, intricate, terrifically engrossing cop thriller. (July)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Young major league baseball pitcher Willie Cintron dies of a drug overdose on the morning of the final American League championship game. Although apparently accidental, Cintron's death raises questions, so NYPD lieutenant Joe Dante begins an investigation. Dante's efforts lead him into a maze of relationships involving Cintron's brother, a dealer in expensive cars, a beautiful television reporter, and a Chinese drug lord who is opening new territory in New York. Newman's novel, his seventh featuring the cool and debonair Dante, is a gritty and believable police procedural. The characters are a fascinating urban cornucopia; Dante himself is especially well rounded. Newman's writing keeps events moving at a crisp pace, yet he manages to incorporate impressive detail. Libraries that purchase crime fiction should seriously consider this title.-A.J. Wright, Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham

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