Fresh kills

'Artie Cohen is the detective New York deserves: smart, wounded, emotional, haunted,
and not as tough as he thinks.Reggie Nadelson's Cohen books get better and better.'
Salman Rushdie With his wife Maxine out of town, Artie Cohen is alone in Manhattan
when his fourteen year-old

nephew Billy Farone is released on leave from the young offenders' institution
where he has been since he stabbed Heshey Shank to death. Artie is the one Billy
wants to come home to. He's the only person Billy cares about, the only man Billy
wants to be. It seems to Artie that Billy has been cured of whatever it was sickness,
evil that made him kill Shank. But from the moment a small plane crashes on to
the beach at Coney Island, bombs go off in London, and New York is shaken out
of the sense that the bad times are over, Artie begins to wonder... Praise for
Red Hook Red Hook is New York noir for the 21st century, with cop Cohen the classic
New Yorker: sexy, mournful, smart, funny, screwed up... So involving you won't
sleep until you turn the last page.' Helena Kennedy in the Guardian 'Nadelson
brilliantly sets down the fevers and woes of our latest age of anxiety. Its rare
that crime writing should so passionately and precisely examine its own time.
Its also reassuring to find a writer who is so magnificently up to the job.' Literary
Review, Book of The Month