Dooley's Back: A Dooley Crime Novel - Softcover

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9780786719884: Dooley's Back: A Dooley Crime Novel

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ISBN 10: 0786719885 ISBN 13: 9780786719884

Publisher: Da Capo Press, 2007

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Dooley's back in town after eight years in Mexico, and already he's making waves, helping a would-be rapist take a five-story shortcut, saving the criminal justice system a lot of trouble. Dooley used to be a cop, and he would still be one if the system hadn't failed him when it counted most; after taking the law into his own hands, Dooley had to take off. Now he wants to come home, but things have changed- people die, marriages fail, and friends get into trouble. Dooley's old partner Roy has a gambling problem, and a cop with a gambling problem means a cop with a mob problem. Dooley's going to try to make everything right again, but he's going to find that playing God is not as easy as it seems.

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Not even a day is Dooley back, and already he's helped a Chicago gangland punk with a switchblade in his hand and rape on his mind to a deadly fall. It's instinct; Frank Dooley used to be a cop.
Things went bad for Dooley eight years ago, when a case of homicide prompted him to take the law into his own hands and then head south, to Mexico. His return to Chicago is met with surprise, among others by his older brother Kevin, now a police lieutenant, and by his old partner, Roy Ferguson.
Roy has had some problems of his own. He's gone through a nasty divorce, and a serious gambling habit has buried him deep in debt. Dangerously deep, for an ambitious loan shark with the mob, John Spanos, is taking the juice on Roy's fifteen-thousand-dollar score in police favors.
Dooley convinces Roy he should own up to what he's done and try to get back his integrity as a cop. Internal Affairs has a plan, but it goes very bad very fast. And this gritty, hard-boiled crime novel by a master of the new noir soon finds Dooley walking a perilous line between the police force he deserted on one side and the Outfit that Roy betrayed on the other.

About the Author:

Sam Reaves was raised in small Midwestern towns but has lived in Chicago or its environs for most of his life. He has also lived or made extended journeys in Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. He has worked as a translator and a teacher. He has published seven novels as Sam Reaves and three as Dominic Martell.

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