The Jack of Diamonds: A Detective Shaw and Woo Novel

"They don't chase monsters. They hunt professionals."A Detective Shaw and Woo Novel:THE JACK OF DIAMONDSWhen mob lawyer Alvin Palino turns up dead in his downtown office, throat cut, a Jack of Diamonds playing card pinned to his chest, Chicago homicide detective Jasper Shaw recognizes the signature. Three years ago, the same card appeared on a dead banker in a Palmer House hotel suite. That case went cold. This one won't.Shaw begins pulling threads: a Korean organized crime network operating out of Avondale, a missing Sabatino enforcer, a widow who performs grief the way other people perform surgery, and a financial architecture built on shell companies and clean paperwork running from the Pacific Rim through a mob lawyer's customs filings. The money always leaves a trail. The man who left the card never does.His newly assigned partner, Detective T.K. Woo, grew up three blocks from the operation Shaw is dismantling. For five years, Woo has been building a parallel case alone, off the books, in composition notebooks locked under his bed, because the last time he trusted the department with what he knew, a source turned up in the river. His sister died in a parking lot off Diversey when she was sixteen. The product that killed her never stopped moving. Woo has been waiting for the right case, the right moment, and the right partner. He did not expect to find all three at once.Jackson Kane has been officially dead since Baghdad, July 2002. In twenty-two years of contract work across twelve countries, he has left a Jack of Diamonds on everybody. He has a code, one he has never explained and rarely examined, and it is that code which brings him to a third-floor walk-up on North Kimball Avenue and places him in the same room as the two detectives hunting him, on the same night they close in on the man who hired him.The Jack of Diamonds is a noir crime novel about three men reading the same city from opposite directions, and what happens when the lines between them finally cross.

Pagina's: 279, Paperback, Gene A Turner Jr