The Con Man's Daughter — Ed Dee

Eddie knows Kate has been taken for something he's done. He knows the Russians are involved, and he knows where they live, how they work, and where their bodies are buried. But the cops and Feds will give Eddie more trouble than help, his tangled loyalties will cancel out, and the danger he faces is one he must attack head on with his own two hands. Because for almost twenty years Eddie and his former NYPD partner cut a swath of law and disorder through New York, hopping back and forth from both sides of the law amidst thievery, extortion, and violence on a scale ordinary citizens could never comprehend. Now he has to find out which of his misdeeds will lead him to his daughter-or to his death.

From the Coney Island beaches where the Russian mafiosos swim to a warehouse disco where nouveau criminals cut deals to a Queens bocce club where old Italians keep bloody secrets, Eddie starts bouncing like a pinball through a game of guts, guns, and gangsters. With the help of a tough woman cop, he is on a twelve-day, full-tilt race against time to save his daughter's life-and do one good thing with a career gone wrong. A story that only a former organized crime detective could tell, THE CON MAN'S DAUGHTER is a big, brawling, colorful novel of violent twists, shocking turns, and a tenderness all its own.