Jerome Charyn
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A secret tryst threatens to turn two cops against each other Isaac Sidel is a bear of a cop. Although his position as the commissioner's first deputy is largely political, Sidel has not forgotten how to work the New York City streets. To protect the East Side he has survived gunfights, broken arms, and once tore out a hoodlum's eyes. In his spare time he does favors for old friends, finding runaway daughters and protecting merchants from roving street...
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A month before he becomes New York City's mayor, Sidel confronts a gang of baseball-loving racists For the first time in his adult life, Isaac Sidel is no longer a cop. He has moved beyond the halls of One Police Plaza, and is about to take residence in Gracie Mansion, after winning New York's mayoral election in a landslide. Unable to bear his downtown apartment without his girlfriend-who is in Europe confronting her Nazi-tinged past-the increasingly...
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In debt to the mob, Sidel's sidekick brings hell to One Police Plaza For Detective Caroll Brent, special attention from Commissioner Sidel is not a good thing. Sidel's last pet detective, Manfred Coen, was killed by a gang of smugglers, and none of Sidel's favorites have had good luck since. But when Sidel taps Brent for an unusual assignment, the young cop can't refuse. As part of a feud with the head of the Board of Education, Sidel turns Brent...
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When his father dies, a young bumper inherits the bloody family business Holden is more than a bill collector. He's a killer. His father came to New York from Belgium to spend his life driving cars for the Aladdin Fur Company. But Holden has more ambition than his old man, and rises to the rank of bumper-a violent collector of debts that cannot be paid. But when his father dies, Holden departs for Europe, to live in seclusion until his money runs...
5) Blue Eyes
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A cop and his disgraced mentor attempt to bust a white slavery ring Before Isaac Sidel adopts him, Manfred Coen is a mutt. A kid from the Bronx, he joins the police academy after his father's suicide leaves him directionless, and is trudging along like any other cadet when first deputy Sidel, the commissioner's right hand man, comes looking for a young cop with blue eyes to infiltrate a ring of Polish smugglers. He chooses Coen, and asks the cadet...
6) Ravage & Son
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A master storyteller's novel of crime, corruption, and antisemitism in early 20th-century Manhattan
Ravage & Son reflects the lost world of Manhattan's Lower East Side-the cradle of Jewish immigration during the first years of the twentieth century-in a dark mirror.
Abraham Cahan, editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, serves as the conscience of the Jewish ghetto teeming with rogue cops and swindlers. He rescues Ben Ravage, an orphan, from a trade...
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The Justice Department hires Sidel's new chauffer to spy on the New York Police Department's commissioner Joey Barbarossa likes being a cop, because it makes dealing drugs easier. Any time a fellow pusher gives him trouble, Joey's detective badge and police-issue Glock have a way of making the problem disappear. He's also protected by his mentor, NYPD Commissioner Isaac Sidel, but there's nothing even Sidel can do when Barbarossa makes the mistake...
8) Elsinore
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A hitman comes out of retirement to rescue his kidnapped fiancée After he stops killing for money, Sidney Holden tries to live discreetly. He takes a Manhattan apartment in the Copenhagen building, a few blocks from where John Lennon died, and attempts to make a new life with his fiancée, Fay, former daughter-in-law of the district attorney. But as the quiet months pass, Fay grows distant and suicidal, and finally disappears, removed by the district...
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When a friend's crime spree threatens his legal empire, a powerful New York attorney must race to stop itbefore at least one of them winds up dead Edward Parkchester, or Parky, the black eagle," is the most successful criminal lawyer in town. He looms over Manhattan from his lair in Sugar Hill and has only one client, Byron Abando, a Mafia prince with a Phi Beta Kappa key. But the black eagle suddenly finds his empire in ruins. Freeman Faulks, a detective...