"Tom Walker, a Sherlockian and member of the Baker Street Irregulars, has done his literary hero proud."
-Vincent Patrick, New York-based novelist and screenwriter, author of "The Pope of Greenwich Village"
"As with Da Vinci, to crack a complex criminal code involves a beacon of brilliance and an uncanny imagination-this author has an abundance of both."
-Ret. Lt. Philip J. Romano, NYPD
"In this boldly plotted, deductive mystery-thriller, a comatose NYPD cop's reports hold the key. Readers will delight in the book's soaring and fantastic climax."
-Ret. Detective Sgt. Joseph...
"Tom Walker, a Sherlockian and member of the Baker Street Irregulars, has done his literary hero proud."
A fourth-generation New York cop whose great-grandfather was on the force during the Civil War Draft Riots of 1863, and author of Fort Apache: New York's Most Violent Precinct, Tom Walker delivers another eye-opening look at the life of being a cop in the Bronx. In this ambitious novel based on events from his family's history, Hugh Ryan, a proud third-generation New York police officer, runs up against the most difficult challenge of his career: battling the institution that has sustained his family for a century, driving him to the brink...
A fourth-generation New York cop whose great-grandfather was on the force during the Civil War Draft Riots of 1863, and author of Fort Apache: New Yor...
OVER THIRTY YEARS AFTER its publication, Fort Apache: New York's Most Violent Precinct remains the definitive account of the vicious cycle of violence that has griped urban America over the past century.
A swollen head floating down the Bronx River, a junkie murdered for stealing a woman's wig, a French Connection-style chase through blind alleys, police barricaded inside their precinct as a wild mob lays siege to the station - and, above all, mindless violence that seemed to erupt in profusion for no apparent reason against the cops who faithfully served and cared deeply about the...
OVER THIRTY YEARS AFTER its publication, Fort Apache: New York's Most Violent Precinct remains the definitive account of the vicious cycle of violence...
