Time to Kill

by Richard Fliegel

The good, the bad, and the damned...

The blood-red Ferrari flashed by. When Detectives Shelly Lowenkopf and Homer Greeley finally caught it on the Bronx River Parkway, they found a nun behind the wheel, and owner of record named Cesar Catalan, who just happened to be one of New York's most vicious coke dealers and a suspect in a local murder. Cesar wants his car back. The nun says it was a gift from God. Suddelny, Lowenkopf and Greeley are following a trail of murder, African kings, Japanese businessmen... and for Lowenkopf, one very hot sister. Someone in the Bronx is practising his own brand of justice, and turning the whole place on its head. But unless the two cops can stop him, this Robin Hood won't make it out of the concrete forest alive.

256 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1990

About the author

Richard Fliegel grew up in the Bronx, in Soundview, Pelham Parkway, Allerton Avenue and Bronx Park East. He went to Bronx Science, and when he didn't he went to the Botanical Gardens. At Buffalo he studied poetry with Robert Creeley and soap opera with Leslie Fiedler. He moved to Bank Street, West 75th, Washington Heights, and woke up one morning in Santa Monica -- when he flew back to read his play, The Judgment of Shika Levi, at the 92nd Street Y. He earned his Ph.D. with W. Ross Winterowd at USC, wrote a bit for TV, and set some books back in the Bronx. The NY Times reviewed one, Liz Smith quoted another, and he kept writing one after another. By daylight he can be found at USC Dornsife, directing programs, creating curriculum, researching critical thinking, doing a little teaching, and writing. Still writing.