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The mutilated bodies of a couple provoke a media frenzy and plunge Detective First Grade Brian McKenna into a dangerous manhunt that leads him into the depths of New York City's illegal pornography underworld. 35,000 first printing.
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Dan Mahoney worked in the New York City Police Department for twenty-five years before retiring as a captain.
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Few authors map the political minefields faced by cops on a high-profile case with more realism than Mahoney (Once In, Never Out). In his fifth novel, this former NYPD captain ups the ante considerably by including real-life lawmen as characters in a sizzling tale of a serial sex-murders case that spreads from California to Thailand. Mahoney's regular hero, NYPD Detective First Grade Brian McKenna, is tapped by Homicide when the married daughter of city council president Paul Barrone is savagely slain in a lover's lane killing along with Barrone aide Arthur McMahon, the son of a powerful Virginia politician. Brian is teamed with the more famous Tommy McKenna (no relation but a real-life NYPD detective), who's in the doghouse with Barrone over a campaign tiff. Tommy ties the M.O. to an unsolved case from 18 years ago; the cops get a break with the killers' first mistakeAuse of stolen credit cards in San Jose, Calif.Arevealed to them through illegal information proffered by Bob Hurley, an ex-cop turned PI who specializes in legal "shortcuts." Brian flies to San Jose and meets Randy Bynum, a black local cop obsessed with a similar killing there who has found clues that have led him to a porn Web site and pictures of what turns out to be the killers, one black and one white, whipping a young victim. The McKennas and Bynum join forces, while McMahon's father hires Hurley to bypass legal red tape and speed the case along. Mahoney weaves a brilliantly twisted plot that makes the most out of solid police work while tapping into extralegal sources to actually solve the case. Clues gleaned from around the world are braided into a noose of a denouement that will leave victims' rights advocates cheering and police procedural buffs smiling.
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The fourth installment of ex-NYPD captain Mahoney's Brian McKenna series (Once In, Never Out, 1998, etc.): a chatty police procedural mostly featuring globe-trotting, good-guy cops talking away in restaurants and running up expense accounts. Avoiding the Hollywood-style car chases and slam-bang shoot-outs of his previous outings, Mahoney here pairs the fictional McKenna with real-life NYPD homicide detective Tom McKenna (``a pal'' whom the author denies was an inspiration for the fictional cop) and other existing law enforcement personnel as he solves a gruesome Fort Tryon Park torture-murder whose victims are the daughter of a politically shrewd New York councilman and the son of a wealthy Virginia criminal lawyer with close ties to Congress. In his first meeting with Tom, Brian discovers that this killing, in which the female victim was gagged and whipped to death, is virtually identical to an unsolved case that has obsessed Tom for 18 years. The two soon find other cops, from California and Arizona to Costa Rica, with similar unsolved murders that all occurred in secluded, spectacularly scenic areas. Brian shares the belief of his cronies that theyre all the work of two menone black, one whitewho sell photographs and videos of their carnage on the snuff-porn market. Thanks to the technically illegal Internet wizardry of former NYPD cop turned sleazy p.i. Joe Hurley, McKenna & Co. track the killers across the country as they use their victims credit cards. Meanwhile, Arthur McMahon, the wealthy Virginian lawyer, has let Brian know that he wants the murdering team to die, legally or illegally, and will spend any amount to make sure it happens. Exact and fascinating cop-insider material, as always from Mahoney, but without much action or suspenseand the ponderous explicatory dialogue is no help. -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
NYPD Detective Brian McKenna hasn't worked a homicide in years, but when the daughter of a prominent local politician is the victim of a torture murder, McKenna is back on the body beat. He's paired with high-profile namesake Tommy McKenna, who has a propensity to write books about his cases and generate publicity for himself. Brian struggles to keep the case low-profile as the two detectives pursue tenuous leads and eventually travel to the Southwest, where they learn the perpetrators like to take pictures of their handiwork and publish them in a series of magazines that cater to the very wealthy and very disturbed. They must enlist the aid of the international police community in an effort to find two killers in a world of monsters. A compelling, graphic procedural that details the painstaking steps required to bring very clever killers to justice. The author, a 25-year veteran of the NYPD, gets it oh-so-right. Wes Lukowsky
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