Death in the City of Bridges: A Miles Jordan Mystery Thriller

by J. C. Ceron

Overview

A deadly plot. An informant gunned down. An officer's hunt for justice placing him at the wrong end of a killer's barrel...

NYPD Detective Miles Jordan puts work above everything, even his health. Joining an international task force entrusted with catching a renowned terrorist, the driven investigator flies to Venice to foil an assassination attempt on the visiting Israeli Prime Minister. But their plan to trap the cunning radical shatters when a key sleeper agent is shot dead in broad daylight.

Determined to track down the sniper disguised as a monk, Miles clashes with the local commander when he's accused of aiding the shooter. But with less than a week until the suspected hitjob and tensions rising in the team, the dedicated policeman is left with no other option than to put his own life on the line.

Can one of New York's finest outsmart the plans of a cutthroat gunman?

Death in the City of Bridges is the second book in a gripping thriller series. If you like smart protagonists, suspenseful action, and spectacular European backdrops, then you'll love J. C. Ceron's high-octane mission.

Buy Death in the City of Bridges to stop an explosive conspiracy today!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798986255415
Publisher:	Gold Coast Books LLC
Publication date:	10/17/2022
Series:	A Miles Jordan Mystery Thriller Series , #2
Pages:	354
Sales rank:	992,974
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

Jay (Juan) C. Ceron is a software engineer who has been writing
fiction since high school. For years, he flirted with different
genres, namely science fiction, horror, and literary fiction, with
an emphasis on irony. After reading Thomas Harris’ Silence of The
Lambs, he knew he was meant to write police mysteries but failed
to develop viable plots or protagonists. That all changed on a trip
to Jamaica in 2014. While on a glass bottom boat tour, the idea
for a character and a short story materialized. That character was
Miles Jordan, a smart, charismatic, overweight police detective
with a relentless drive to solve cases.

From there, Jay took writing seriously. What was to become the
fourth and longest novella in a Miles Jordan series took on a life
of its own. Set in the magical city of Venice, Italy, material for
the story came easily. The word count grew, the chapters came
together, and the novella became this full-length novel.
Death in the City of Bridges is Jay’s debut novel, written over a span
of six years on a lot less than part-time basis; it included trips to
Venice for research and inspiration.

Editorial Reviews

2023-06-28
A New York City detective races against time to stop a terrorist attack in Venice, Italy, in Ceron’s thriller.

Although this assured thriller is the author’s first full-length novel, he introduced its protagonist Miles in a previous novella, Death of the Saltwater Blonde(2022). Miles Jordan—“Detective First Grade New York Police Department, FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force Officer, and Jamal’s Big & Tall Gold Star Customer”—is in Venice as part of a counterterrorism force partnering with the Italian military police. The mission: use captured sleeper agent Aarzam El-Hashem as bait to catch the elusive terrorist known as the Scorpion, assumed to be targeting the Israeli prime minister during the latter’s visit to the city in a few days. The task force’s plans go awry, and the arrogant, ambitious commander of the Venice Carabinieri, Col. Giuseppe Marino, blames Miles. However, the Scorpion sees Miles’ persistence and tendency to think outside the box as the real threats to him. Miles, who is Black, is about to be removed from the case by the American special agent in charge, a racist, “hardline good ol’ boy”; however, a clandestine meeting with a CIA operative opens new lines of inquiry and buys him more time. Ceron’s fast-paced, multilayered plot encompasses a meeting at the Roman Catholic Church archdiocese with an outspoken anti-Islam cardinal, a disturbing encounter with the leader of a shadowy organization of terrorist Catholic fanatics, and even a possible mole within the Carabinieri. The villains are a bit shallowly developed, but this is mitigated by the novel’s overall emotional resonance, particularly in the poignant tale of desperate father Nabeel Haddad, who unknowingly gets caught up in the lethal plot, and Miles’ burgeoning relationship with the haunted, Somalia-born Kamaria Uba of the Carabinieri.

A suspenseful crime story with deft plotting and a resourceful, well-developed protagonist.

Kirkus Reviews