Nowhere to Run - Hardcover

Daley, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0446520632 ISBN 13: 9780446520638

Publisher: Grand Central Pub, 1996

Synopsis

NYPD detective Jack Dilger is drifting way out of his jurisdiction. He suspects a society art dealer is fencing stolen old masters to Colombian drug traffickers and starts to follow their trail. Then suddenly he's ordered off the case. He defies his superiors, and finds himself risking his marriage, his career, and his life. Hunted and unarmed, Dilger retires to the south of France - and discovers a single, vital, unlikely ally.
Inspecteur Madeleine Leclerq of the Police Judiciaire in the city of Nice uncovers evidence of corrupt politicians looting the city. She too is blocked by superiors. She too pushes doggedly on. Then Madeleine encounters Jack Dilger.
Rejected by their profession and stalked by mortal enemies from their pasts, Dilger and Madeleine are now outsiders. International law enforcement can't or won't help. Amid the splendor and sensuality of the French Riviera, and almost against their will, they will find a haven in each other's arms. And test the limits of their mutual trust as they hurtle through a cycle of menace and survival that becomes more addictive - and more dangerous - with every move they dare.

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Returning to the southern French setting of his novel The Dangerous Edge (1983), Daley (Wall of Brass) crafts a crisp and intricate thriller about two detectives and two police systems that, for all its high-spirited writing, turns seriously dark at the end. Detective Jack Dilger has alienated some powerful NYPD superiors with his freewheeling ways. When his bust of a crooked art dealer and a couple of Colombian drug agents turns into a disastrous shootout, he's forced off the job. In immediate peril from the surviving drug dealer and with his marriage crumbling, Jack takes off for the French Riviera. There he hooks up with former Nice inspecteur Madeleine Leclerq, who herself has been forced out of her job, her case against some crooked politicians and industrialists quashed from on high. Jack and Madeleine begin an affair and soon realize that each is being stalked by enemies. Daley's leads are likable and believable, his French local color is first-rate and his complicated plot turns, buoyed by tension and splashed with violence, work beautifully. The ending isn't happy, but it rings true. Daley, once deputy commissioner of the NYPD, again proves that as far as cop novels go, he's still the top brass around. Major ad/promo.
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An unlikely pair of cops forced into premature retirement team up against the hit men assigned to kill one of them, in NYPD specialist Daley's most serious dip yet into mainstream waters. Jack Dilger knows that rules are made to be broken. So when he goes after crooked art dealer Herbert Bulfinch, he doesn't let departmental regs, or the New York penal code, stop him from installing illegal wiretaps, tracing the links between Bulfinch and his latest client, aspiring collector/Colombian druglord Jorge Zaragon, or crashing Bulfinch's meeting with Zaragon and his kid brother Victoriano without a warrant. The result is a bloody shootout, done to a turn by Daley (Wall of Brass, 1994, etc.) that leaves two cops dead and our sullied hero on life support, with his higher-ups almost as mad as Victoriano Zaragon. Meantime, on the Riviera, financial inspector Madeleine Leclerq has been equally diligent and equally foolhardy in pursuing a money-laundering scam whose tentacles reach high up into the Nice local government. The more evidence Madeleine and her partners gather, the lower their stars sink on the horizon, and when in her frustration she talks out of school to a Paris Match reporter, she's exiled to a meaningless job with the Youth Brigade and given the gate by her live-in lawyer. All this background intrigue, which fills half the book, merely sets the stage for an extended High Noon finale, as Victoriano, under indictment and with Dilger the only surviving witness, comes after him--first via variously inept proxies, then in person-- just as he's caught the eye of Madeleine. There'll be time for a decorative survey of the Mediterranean before the agreeably sardonic ending. Fleet and absorbing, though paradoxically more modest than some of Daley's genre pieces. Victoriano's presence turns out to be lucky for the characters, since without him they'd be denuded of the suspense situations that give them what substance they have. -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

An aggressive New York City cop and a lovely French detective, both tossed off their respective forces for rules violations, find love and danger in Nice. From the best-selling author of Wall of Brass (Little, Brown, 1994).
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

When New York detective Jack Dilger's marriage to an interior designer deteriorates, he decides to bust one of her art-world pals who is dealing stolen paintings to South American drug lords. But it all goes bad: cops die, bad guys (including one of the infamous Zaragon brothers) die, and Jack is severely wounded. Forced to retire, he flees to France, the surviving Zaragon brother on his tail. There he meets Madeleine Leclerq, also a cop in deadly trouble. Jack and Madeleine become lovers without realizing the danger the other is in. They gradually reveal their stories; an assassination attempt speeds the process. Are they in danger from the Zaragon brother or from Madeleine's French enemies? The parallel tales of Jack and Madeleine are related in great detail: the lovers don't even meet until the story's halfway point. Jack's paranoia nearly poisons the relationship before it can begin. Madeleine's inability to comprehend his street-cowboy machismo doesn't help either. Only when they both recognize the other as their only hope to survive does the relationship blossom. Daley, who turns out best-sellers regularly, has hit pay dirt again. Both tough and tender, this novel will surely satisfy his legion of loyal readers. Daley is like a master mason: anyone can mortar bricks together, but it takes a craftsman to erect a memorable structure. One won't soon forget Jack Dilger and Madeleine Leclerq. Wes Lukowsky

Edition details

• Publisher: Grand Central Pub
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0446520632
• ISBN 13: 9780446520638
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 460