The Two Chinatowns - Hardcover

Mahoney, Dan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312261349 ISBN 13: 9780312261344

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 2001

Synopsis

Grief-stricken and bitter when gang members kill his girlfriend, Cisco Sanchez, a volatile NYPD detective, journeys deep into the dark underbelly of Chinatown in New York and Toronto to find the killers.

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About the Author

Dan Mahoney was born and raised in New York City. He worked for twenty-five years in the NYPD before retiring as a captain. He is the author of Black and White, Once In, Never Out, Hyde, Edge of the City, and Detective First Grade (All available from St. Martin's Press). He lives in Levittown, New York.

From Publishers Weekly

A complex plot is no deterrent to enjoyment of Mahoney's ambitious thriller, in which a Cuban-American NYPD detective takes on a powerful 300-year-old Chinese crime association, or triad, whose tentacles reach all over the world. On a visit to Toronto, Det. Cisco Sanchez takes his new fianc?e, Sue Hsu, to her uncle's restaurant, where she stumbles into a gang kidnapping of a kitchen worker and is killed. Executing swift justice, Sanchez holds off the local cops. Bailed out by his partner, well-connected series regular Brian McKenna (Black and White) and their boss, Sanchez and his fellow NYPDers join forces with a Chinese investigator in Toronto. They soon discover that the Chinese gang responsible for the killing has been hired by the triad to "collect" big money payments from illegal Chinese aliens smuggled into New York and Toronto. Launching an attack in both cities, their investigation sends out shock waves far and wide as bodies pile up and the husband and wife triad enforcement team known as Boris and Natasha are captured in Toronto. The couple turn informer to protect their family, but the cops don't count on meeting up with Murray Don't Worry a real-life New York City lawyer who almost steals the book. Murray plays the cops like a Stradivarius while matchmaking between his secretary/niece and Sanchez. When the team finally targets Johnny Eng, the dragon head of the triad (and another Murray client) the action really picks up. McKenna takes a back seat in this outing as Sanchez runs the show, with a little help from his friends. Mahoney's characters are always solid, and this tale is almost a primer on Chinese community dynamics. He pulls no punches and speeds to a perfect ending. (July 27) FYI: The author is a 25-year veteran of the NYPD.
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About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0312261349
• ISBN 13: 9780312261344
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 342