内容説明
For Detective Dave Moser, the price of being a cop is getting higher every hour. On a heat-soaked island of violence called Manhattan, a few good cops have gone very bad. Internal Affairs wants Moser to rat. And someone inside the force wants him taken out. In Moser s world, men will do anything to protect their turf.
From Publishers Weekly
Resonant prose and a murky narrative result in a mixed verdict for this second work from the author of Bait. A girl's body is pulled from the Harlem River. Her Guatemalan father, Adalberto Cruz, and his silent bodyguard seem less than sorrowful. Dave Moser is the good cop on the case. Across town, a motor-mouthed mob guy is getting ready to testify against his buddies, and Deputy Marshall Claire Locke is in charge of guarding him. Part of his testimony involves regular payments made to cops. Abel's observant eye and clipped writing are considerably more accomplished than his pacing. The informant is a would-be comic whose lame patter drags on; the action lags similarly. Moser, in the midst of divorce proceedings, acts as though he's a cog in machinery whose controls are beyond his reach; both he and the readers spend time waiting for something to happen. At the same time, we watch a crooked cop and wait for him to get snarled up by Internal Affairs or to brutally silence his detractors, nearly forgetting, meanwhile, about Moser and the floater. Abel is a talented writer and he delivers a stunning conclusion, but getting there is heavy going.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Book Description
His car is dead, his wife has left him, and Detective Dave Moser needs all the friends he can get. Instead, he's about to take on a case that buries him in a morass of corruption and contract murder in the NYPD. Once again Kenneth Abel, author of the acclaimed novel
Bait, hurtles us into the gritty, hair-raising world of cops and criminals as Moser finds himself alone, hunting a killer, torn between loyalty and honor, survival and...
The Blue Wall.
It's not just another floater when Moser and his partner investigate a gorgeous young woman, found dead in the water, missing both eyes. She looked like she came from money with her fancy dental work. No needle tracks. A VIP missing persons report leads Moser to a Park Avenue address and the girl's father, a wealthy Guatemalan with a stone-faced bodyguard and a lot to hide. As Moser and his partner look for leads in the case, a series of unrelated homicides follow-- unrelated until Moser connects the lives of the victims. And when Lt. Tom Richter of the hated Internal Affairs Division tries to persuade him to investigate a fellow cop, it's clear that there's another correlation as well. Moser's on a downhill slide--straight into a federal probe of organized crime that's directly connected to his case.
A wiseguy is singing like a canary, implicating Moser's friend as ringleader of a gang of bent cops, connecting him to the murder that haunts Moser's days and nights. And Moser's the man in the middle: suspected as a possible co-conspirator if he doesn't play along with IAD, loathed as a rat if he does. If he wants a future--in or out of the force--he must keep his own counsel, watch his back, and follow a bloody, unmarked trail to its bitter end.
Stunning, taut, bristling with suspense, The Blue Wall races to an explosive climax that will echo in memory long after the last page is turned.
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From the Publisher
For Detective Dave Moser, the price of being a cop is getting higher every hour. On a heat-soaked island of violence called Manhattan, a few good cops have gone very bad. Internal Affairs wants Moser to rat. And someone inside the force wants him taken out. In Moser's world, men will do anything to protect their turf.
