Good condition - slight sticker residue on back Originally $23📖 At the center of LITTLE BOY BLUE is an airport heist gone bad. A young baggage handler has been gunned down. Detective Joe Gregory and his part-ner, Anthony Ryan, sense something "hinky" about the killing of young Johnny Boy Counihan, who wore an old blue NYPD overcoat to his death. Determined to find the killer, the two cops cast their lot with Johnny Boy's angry, heartbroken, street-smart grandfather, Vito Martucci, who claims to know who did the killing and why. Vito doesn't have all the answers. While the detectives interview suspects, a hoods' hangout in Queens is firebombed and another body is found in a car trunk at the airport, this one covered with artificial eyes. And a group of young Irish immi-grants, linked to Johnny Boy's life and death, tell Ryan and Gregory a story that ranges from charmingly curious to darkly disturbing. The real killers-and the real motive-remain hidden somewhere in the city that pays Ryan's and Gregory's salary and confounds them, the city of their fathers, their sins, their enemies. For the Great Gregory, years of hard living have taken a steep emotional toll. For Ryan, being a cop first and a husband second is giving way to a new sense of love for his wife and a marriage that has endured. And for both, a partnership forged in the mad, unceasing poetry of the street—as well as the politics of the force-is turning to something else: a deeper understanding and acceptance of each other's flawed humanity. When Gregory and Ryan finally uncover the truth behind Johnny Boy's killing, it is a truth laced with bitter irony, love, and innocence betrayed. Like the character of Vito Martucci, a man of pride, resourcefulness, and enormous heart, like the cop bars the partners visit, like the vista of Manhattan from the Triboro Bridge, like an unforgettable Christmas party in Ryan's house, LITTLE BOY BLUE is a novel that feels for its people, its place, and its time. For here are real bonds being forged between real men and women, between lovers and families-and between partners doing a job that's in their blood. LITTLE BOY BLUE is the work of a major American novelist coming into his own.

ISBN: 9780446520386