Description:''It’s a lovely autumn in
the Big Apple, and the weather is perfect for trouble. Over the weekend,
a teenage gang rumbled on the playground, leaving a fifteen year-old
stabbed and a younger boy beaten half to death; a high-speed chase left
one dead and two badly injured; and a fire in a tenement killed two—and
the police found the arsonist standing outside, relishing his handiwork.
It was a beautiful weekend in the city, and every deadly incident found
its way across the police blotter of the Fifty-Second Precinct and into
the hands of Lieutenant Clancy.
One of the hardest detectives
on the force, Clancy will be tested with everything from a recluse’s
murder to an assassination attempt at the United Nations this fall. It
may be his job, but it is never routine.