Product Description

Rocco Klein, veteran homicide detective, has had enough of life on the edge. When a warm summer night brings yet another drug-related murder, he has no sense that the case is anything special. A young black man steps forward to confess but a little digging reveals that he's never been in any kind of trouble, whereas his half-brother, Strike, runs a crew of street-corner coke deales - 'clockers' - in a nearby housing project. Soon Rocco is sure that Strike is the real killer - and suddenly Rocco's appetite for the job is back. With a vengence...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #160297 in Books
• Published on: 2003-04-21
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 608 pages

Review
'The most heralded work of fiction to come out of New York since Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities...While Wolfe's high-rollers only dipped a toe into the dark side, Price gives us all the raw detail of the street...timely, majestic' Time Out 'Big, shocking, powerful...resounds with vivid detail' Independent on Sunday

Independent on Sunday
'Big, shocking, powerful ... resounds with vivid detail'

New York Times Book Review
'Powerful, harrowing, remarkable'