Night Life: A Michael Cassidy Novel (The Michael Cassidy Novels #1)

Synopsis

*A 2016 Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel*Winner of the 2016 Nero Wolfe Award for Best American MysteryDavid C. Taylor's Night Life takes us back to New York City in 1954.The Cold War is heating up. Senator Joe McCarthy is running a witch hunt for Communists in America. The newly formed CIA is fighting a turf battle with the FBI to see who will be the primary US intelligence agency. And the bodies of murdered young men are turning up in the city.Michael Cassidy has an unusual background for a New York cop. His father, a refugee from Eastern Europe, is a successful Broadway producer. His godfather is Frank Costello, a Mafia boss. Cassidy also has an unusual way of going about the business of being a cop-maybe that's why he threw a fellow officer out a third story window of the Cortland Hotel.Cassidy is assigned to the case of Alexander Ingram, a Broadway chorus dancer found tortured and dead in his apartment in Hell's Kitchen. Complications grow as other young men are murdered one after the other. And why are the FBI, the CIA, and the Mafia interested in the death of a Broadway gypsy?Meanwhile, a mysterious, beautiful woman moves into Cassidy's building in Greenwich Village. Is Dylan McCue a lover or an enemy? Cassidy is plagued by nightmares-dreams that sometimes become reality. And he has been dreaming that someone is coming to kill him.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Copyright:

2016

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

333 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781466843431

Related ISBNs:

9780765374837

Publisher:

Tor Publishing Group

Date of Addition:

11/10/24

Copyrighted By:

David C. Taylor

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.