First published 2015
Billy Graves carries eighteen years of baggage from one terrible mistake. In the mid-90s, as part of the Wild Geese anti-crime unit in the South Bronx, he accidentally shot a ten-year-old boy while stopping a drug-crazed attacker. The incident branded him a cowboy and sent his career into a downward spiral of dead-end assignments. Now a sergeant with Manhattan Night Watch, Billy handles nighttime felonies from Wall Street to Harlem, usually just setting up cases for the day shift. But a 4:00 a.m. fatal slashing at Penn Station pulls him deeper than usual. When Billy discovers the victim was once a suspect in the unsolved murder of a twelve-year-old boy, the case connects directly to his former Wild Geese colleagues. The investigation drags Billy back into the bad old days, fracturing friendships built in the urban trenches and putting his family at risk.
Genres: fiction, mystery, crime, thriller
Vibes: dark, emotional, fast-paced, thought-provoking
Tropes: redemption, second-chance
Setting: Bronx, Harlem, Manhattan, Penn Station, Wall Street
Period: 1990s
352 pages · Kindle Edition · Henry Holt and Co.
Content warnings: violence