On an urban
battleground dangerously divided along racial lines, probation officer Steve Baum is desperately struggling to hold on to the last remaining shreds of his
idealism-until Darryl King invades his world. A deranged young sociopath, one of the most bloodthirsty creations of a diseased society, Darryl has come to drag Baum along with him into an inescapable morass of terror and
corruption. And as their ravaged city explodes, they will stand face-to-face-mortal enemies trapped together in the heart of a devastating inferno that threatens to consume them both.
This novel is not just the story of the idealist probation officer Steven Baum versus the sociopath crack addict and drug dealer Darryl King but a story of a city (New York) where the melting pot… Now that I have read Peter Blauner, I will be buying anything of his that I can find. He is a wonderful writer, and this is the type of book you read and wonder why this man is not at least as big as…
