2010, ISBN: 9781846054723

London.: Century. Very Good. 23 x 15cm. Paperback. 2010. 502 pages.<br>New York's Lombardo's Steak House is famous for thr ee reasons - the menu, the clientele, and now the … More...

London.: Century. Very Good. 23 x 15cm. Paperback. 2010. 502 pages.<br>New York's Lombardo's Steak House is famous for thr ee reasons - the menu, the clientele, and now the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer. Effortlessly, the assassin slips thro ugh the police's fingers, and his absence sparks a blaze of accus ations about who ordered the hit. Seated at a table, reporter Nic k Daniels is conducting a once-in-a lifetime interview with a leg endary baseball bad-boy. In the chaos, he accidentally captures a key piece of evidence that lands him in the middle of an all-out war between Italian and Russian mafia forces. --- back cover Ne w York's Lombardo's Steak House is famous for three reasons -- th e menu, the clientele, and now the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer. Effortlessly, the assassin slips through the police' s fingers, and his absence sparks a blaze of accusations about wh o ordered the hit. Seated at a nearby table, reporter Nick Daniel s is conducting a once-in-a-lifetime interview with a legendary b aseball bad-boy. Shocked and shaken, he doesn't realise that he's accidentally captured a key piece of evidence. Ensnared in the c ity's most sensational crime in years, Nick investigates for a st ory of his own. Back off -- or die -- is the clear message as he closes in on the facts. Heedless, and perhaps in love, Nick endur es humiliation, threats, violence, and worse in a thriller that o verturns every expectation and finishes with the kind of flourish only James Patterson knows ., Century, 2010, 3<