Dee, Ed The Con Man's Daughter ISBN 13: 9780892967940

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When his thirty-five-year-old daughter is kidnapped, former NYPD detective Eddie Dunne, suspecting the disappearance is related to his previous employment with a crime boss, finds the case complicated by his former partner's grisly murder.

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Ed Dee lives in Lewes, Delaware
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NYPD vet Dee is known for the authenticity of his New York City police procedurals (14 Peck Slip; Bronx Angel; etc.), and his new stand-alone thriller is no exception. Abandoning past NYPD heroes Anthony Ryan and Joe Gregory, Dee introduces ex-cop, ex-prize-fighter Eddie "God help me... I love a brawl" Dunn. After being kicked out of the NYPD along with partner Paulie "the Priest" Caruso, Eddie spends the next decade as a courier for Russian gangster Anatoly Lukin. Though retired now, Eddie still knows the secrets of the Russian mob, so when his 35-year-old daughter, Kate, is kidnapped, he figures the Brighton Beach boys are behind the snatch. "The word hardened didn't do these guys justice. Decades of frigid weather, deprivation, and sanctioned cruelty had forced them to develop a level of toughness and cunning beyond anyone's ability to understand." All signs point to crime lord Yuri Borodenko, so Eddie responds by firebombing Yuri's Rolls Royce (with one of the mobster's minions in the front seat). Borodenko retaliates by bouncing Paulie Caruso's severed head off Eddie's front door. Then things get really ugly. Along with gritty realism, Dee gives the reader plenty of useful criminal information: how to set up a pump-and-dump Wall Street scheme, hijack a car, hire a Hasidic Jew to smuggle Ecstasy, rip off Medicare, launder money and spot a two-way mirror, for starters. Eddie eventually bulls his way through the mob and rescues his daughter, but not before surviving a number of horrendous beatings and a couple of grenade attacks. Down and dirty crime fiction doesn't get any better than this.
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  • PublisherMysterious Press
  • Publication date2003
  • ISBN 10 0892967943
  • ISBN 13 9780892967940
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages304
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