Donald Corren
1) Last Words
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In March of 1975, as New York City hurtles toward bankruptcy and the Bronx burns, newsman Coleridge Taylor roams police precincts and ERs. He is looking for the story that will deliver him from obits, his place of exile at the Messenger-Telegram. Ever since he was demoted from the police beat for inventing sources, the thirty-four-year-old has been a lost soul.A break comes at Bellevue, where Taylor views the body of a homeless teen picked up in the...
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The scorching summer of 1977. Son of Sam's murder spree has an iron grip on the media's attention, and Coleridge Taylor knows others are getting away with murder as a result. Determined to do something about the crimes being ignored, Taylor investigates the bludgeoning death of an old woman living in the same neighborhood as his father, an alcoholic college professor.Taylor's digging uncovers a conspiracy and two more terrible murders. But when Son...
3) A Black Sail
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On the eve of the US Bicentennial, newsman Coleridge Taylor is covering Operation Sail. New York Harbor is teeming with tall ships from all over the world. While enjoying the spectacle, Taylor is still a police reporter. He wants to cover real stories, and gritty New York City still has plenty of those in July of 1976. One surfaces right in front of him when a housewife is fished out of the harbor wearing bricks of heroin, inferior stuff users have...
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Coleridge Taylor is searching for his next scoop on the police beat. The Messenger-Telegram reporter has a lot to choose from on the crime-ridden streets of New York City in 1975. One story outside his beat is grabbing all the front page glory: New York teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, and President Ford just told the city, as the Daily News so aptly puts it, "drop dead."Taylor's situation is nearly as desperate. His home is a borrowed dry-docked...