In a secluded New York City park, a double homicide draws two detectives named McKenna. One is a legend; the other, a brilliant young investigator. Together, they are entering a case that will grow more bizarre and horrifying with each new piece of shocking evidence.
One of the victims was tied to a tree and slowly tortured to death. Veteran 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 Far 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.
"Mahoney gives compulsive procedural buffs exactly what they crave."-New York Times Book Review
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When two bombs kill a British diplomat and his wife in Reykjavik, Thor Erikson, Iceland’s only homicide detective, begins his fifth murder case in twelve years. Then word comes of a woman’s mutilated body, washed up in a distant village.
Meanwhile, NYPD Detective Brian McKenna is on a high-priority search for an Irish-born waitress, Meaghan Maher, whose brother, a priest, is an aid to the Cardinal of the Archdiocese of New York.
McKenna tracks Meaghan to Iceland, but is soon chasing a man with ties to Ireland, the NYPD, and a series of unsolved murders linked with other bombings. Racing from Iceland to Belfast to Dublin and back to New York, McKenna knows the St. Patrick’s Day Parade will be the bomber’s next target—unless McKenna finds him first.
“Mahoney knows the drill on conducting a manhunt…[He] takes us through the crime scene photos, the morgue visits, the criminal profiling, the computer searches, and all the rest of it with scientific precision and absolute authenticity.”—New York Times Book Review
NYPD Detective Brian McKenna is back where he belongs: hunting down a mysterious killer who preys upon the city’s most forgotten members. At first blush, it seems as if these homeless men have frozen to death on the city streets. But the succession of deaths seems too suspicious for McKenna to ignore. He soon finds that all of the victims were HIV-positive, and all were seen taking their last drink from a bottle of wine given to them by a gaunt, black-clad man called “Hyde.”
Who is this sinister figure, and why is he killing harmless men who are already at death’s door? A hell-bent McKenna must chase the murderer from the streets of Manhattan through Europe and finally to Costa Rica to uncover the astounding answer.
“[Mahoney] treats us to some of the finest police work since William Canutiz.”—New York Times Book Review
A murderous Robin Hood stalks New York City in a powerhouse new thriller by the best-selling author of Black and White.
Detective First Grade Brian McKenna and his partner Cisco Sanchez are chasing a killer that all of New York City is rooting for, a vigilante of supreme technical skill, physical power, and intelligence who signs himself “Justice.” Justice is executing drug dealers, helping the police close unsolved cases, and providing those in need with stolen drug money—creating a nightmare for the police commissioner, the mayor, and the two detectives. McKenna and Sanchez must work to outsmart the killer, discover his next victim, and find out who is helping Justice in his quest for revenge.
“Mahoney is a genius at transforming the details of the workaday police grind into a spellbinding thriller, and he is in top form here…When the vigilante’s identity is finally unveiled, a fast-moving series of shootouts and heart-wrenching decisions make for a spectacular climax.”—Publishers Weekly
