Plagued by his own dark pleasures and followed by a deadly assassin, Frank is finally forced to decide if digging out the truth about a bribe to his pal the judge is worth risking his career, his family and his life. With supple prose, brilliant dialogue, complex characters and a twisting plot, this opening salvo of The Trilogy is a fast-paced urban crime thriller, a classic noir story of corruption, betrayal and murder. --Victoria Best, Tales from the Reading Room --Christoph Fischer, author of The Luck of the Weissensteiners --Patrick, Amazon Reviewer