Death Games: A Novel [Paperback]

Characters to watch are assorted Mafia hoods; a passel of eccentrics who live at the Seventy-ninth Street Boat Basin; the regulars at Rileys saloonDonovans favorite hangout and (perhaps) Clint, Donovans ill-tempered snapping turtle. Also on hand are Sgt. T. L. Jefferson, Donovans redoubtable assistant, and Sgt. Marcia Barnes, the black undercover policewoman who is his on-again, off-again lover. Heres another jaunty big city thriller by the author of the much acclaimedWhy is a beauty from the horse country of Virginia stalking and killing mobsters with a Civil War pistol? The top brass of the New York Police Department think shes a hired killer. But Bill Donovan, head of the West Side Major Crimes Unit, knows its much more complicated. And before long the mysterious hit lady has drawn him into a web of international intrigue, revenge, and death.