Black and White: A Novel (Det. Brian McKenna Novels) - Softcover

Mahoney, Dan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312971494 ISBN 13: 9780312971496

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2000

Synopsis

In a secluded New York City park, a double homicide draws two detectives named McKenna. One is a legend; the other is a brilliant young investigator. Together, they are entering a case that will grow more bizarre and more horrifying with each new piece of shocking evidence...

One of the victims was tied to a tree and slowly tortured to death. Veteran detective Tommy McKenna realizes that he has seen this killer's work before-eighteen years earlier...

Tommy will get a second crack at his killer. Brian McKenna gets to work with a legend. And both men are setting in motion an investigation that will take them to California, Arizona, a Costa Rican mountaintop, and all the way to the Fare East. The two McKennas are on the trail of two human monsters who have been killing for two decades-and murder isn't even the worst of their crimes...

About this title

About the Author:

Dan Mahoney was born and raised in New York City. After serving the Marine Corps in Vietnam, he joined the New York City Police Department, where he worked for twenty-five years before retiring as a captain. He is the author of four previous novels and lives in Levittown, New York.

From Kirkus Reviews:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0312971494
• ISBN 13: 9780312971496
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 528