REGGIE NADELSON

The acclaimed author of "Disturbed Earth" has created in Artie Cohen one of the mystery genres most interesting and complex characters: tough, unusually sensitive, deeply flawed, and unabashedly human. One of the best mysteries ever set in New York City, the last in an "archipelago trilogy" following 9/11, by the acclaimed author of" Disturbed Earth." With his wife Maxine out of town, Artie Cohen is alone in Manhattan when his nephew Billy Farone is released from the young offenders'' institution where he has been since he stabbed Heshey Shank to death. Artie is the one Billy wants to come home to--he''s family and he''s the only person Billy cares about; Artie wants desperately to believe that Billy is OK. As a plane crashes on Coney Island, bombs go off in London, and New York is shaken out of the sense that the bad times have passed, Artie begins to wonder. Over four days in Manhattan and on Staten Island there are signs that Shank''s family wants Billy locked up for good, and that Billy''s mother doesn''t want him coming home either. The bodies begin to appear and Artie, up against a brick wall of his own hope and despair, doesn''t know what or whom to believe. Reggie Nadelson has created in Artie Cohen one of mystery fiction''s most interesting and complex characters: tough, unusually sensitive, deeply flawed and human.

One of the best mysteries ever set in New York City, the last in an archipelago trilogy following 9/11, by the acclaimed author of Disturbed Earth. With his wife Maxine out of town, Artie Cohen is alone in Manhattan when his nephew Billy Farone is released from the young offenders institution where he has been since he stabbed Heshey Shank to death. Artie is the one Billy wants to come home tohes family and hes the only person Billy cares about; Artie wants desperately to believe that Billy is OK. As a plane crashes on Coney Island, bombs go off in London, and New York is shaken out of the sense that the bad times have passed, Artie begins to wonder. Over four days in Manhattan and on Staten Island there are signs that Shanks family wants Billy locked up for good, and that Billys mother doesnt want him coming home either. The bodies begin to appear and Artie, up against a brick wall of his own hope and despair, doesnt know what or whom to believe. Reggie Nadelson has created in Artie Cohen one of mystery fictions most interesting and complex characters: tough, unusually sensitive, deeply flawed and human.

"As the celebrations of Barack Obama's presidential victory draw to an end in the social melting pot of Harlem, New York, an old woman's death reveals deceit, racial tension, and city corruption - " "In New York's Harlem, every street is steeped in history, and the music of jazz legends plays in the memories of its residents. Artie Cohen could feel at home here - if he wasn't on the trail of a killer intent on erasing the past - An elderly Russian woman is found dead in her apartment, and Cohen finds himself in the centre of a violent debate between city developers and an older generation of Harlem tenants. Not to mention the tensions between himself, his old girlfriend, and her new, younger lover. Meanwhile someone in these once-violent streets is intent on hauling Harlem into the twenty-first century, no matter what it takes - "

Winter 2003: war is looming and New York is paralysed by the worst blizzard in years. Artie Cohen is called in to investigate a case: a pile of blood soaked children's clothes have been found on the beach in Brooklyn. Almost against his will, Artie finds himself drawn into a case that involves the death of a child and the unaccountable disappearance of another, all against the background of a city already stricken by fear. In his increasingly obsessive search for the missing child, Artie finds himself in the remote coastal suburbs of Brooklyn, among the Russian community he thought he had left behind him - and way out of his depth. Along the way he falls in love with one woman and is seduced by another, but little can calm his mind as his past comes back to haunt him…

As the celebrations of Barack Obamas presidential victory draw to an end in the social melting pot of Harlem, New York, an old womans death reveals deceit, racial tension, and city corruption... In New Yorks Harlem, every street is steeped in history, and the music of jazz legends plays in the memories of its residents. Artie Cohen could feel at home here - if he wasnt on the trail of a killer intent on erasing the past... An elderly Russian woman is found dead in her apartment, and Cohen finds himself in the centre of a violent debate between city developers and an older generation of Harlem tenants. Not to mention the tensions between himself, his old girlfriend, and her new, younger lover. Meanwhile someone in these once-violent streets is intent on hauling Harlem into the twenty-first century, no matter what it takes...

On the outskirts of New York, a childs swing turns gently in the breeze. Resting on it, propped at an odd angle, is the body of a young woman: naked, mutilated, and bound in silver duct tape. In the wounds on her chest, congealed blood pools in the shape of the letter T; the calling-card of a frenzied killer... Unfortunately for Artie Cohen, death is never far away. In London, where glamorous old-world emigres rub shoulders with the hungry young zealots of Putins Moscow, a hired gun with sadistic tastes has crashed the party. And where international espionage, business and corruption mingle, Artie might have to dance with the devil to save the life of a friend...

During the stifling autumn of 1962, NYPD detective Pat Wynne catches the hardest case of his career. A young Cuban mans body has been found on the High Line freight railroad, mutilated beyond recognition. His is the second Cuban murder in New York that year - both bodies displaying the same tattoo of a worm and the words Cuba Libre. Meanwhile, international tension is mounting and missiles are trained on America. The city is terrified. Pat is not only investigating a disturbing, politically sensitive case: there may be a spy on his own doorstep. Are his instincts correct, or is he about to commit the ultimate act of betrayal?