Peter Goldman's debut novel is the first in a planned series starring an ex-cop turned PI named Max Christian. Max is not the prototypical private eye of detective fiction. There's nothing particularly heroic about him. His wife has left him and taken their son with her. He misses his lost past chasing murderers as an NYPD homicide detective. He's drinking too much. He's bedding too many women whose names he can never remember. He's having imaginary conversations with the ghost of Albert Camus, who nags him--in ghetto language--about his addiction to the drug called self-pity. But all that...
Peter Goldman's debut novel is the first in a planned series starring an ex-cop turned PI named Max Christian. Max is not the prototypical private eye...
Max Christian, the only private investigator known to hold regular conversations with the ghost of Albert Camus, thinks the assignment is simple enough. An old friend running for Congress wants some assistance-starting with confirming or denying a suspicion her bad-boy husband might be cheating on her. He should know nothing's ever really that simple.
Christian's former NYPD homicide partner, Tina Falcone, has her own problems. Newly married to her longtime girlfriend, Falcone finds herself at the center of a serial killer investigation, hunting a madman who gets his kicks slashing into...
Max Christian, the only private investigator known to hold regular conversations with the ghost of Albert Camus, thinks the assignment is simple en...
