Killer

Lt. Joe Dante #8

by Christopher Newman

THE HIT
The shooter knew just where Lt. Joe Dante would be and just when to bring him down. But when the gunfire stopped and the blood seeped out onto the Manhattan pavement, Dante was still alive. And now he's bent on revenge.

THE HEAT
A maverick detective who socializes with New York's rich and famous and arrests society's scum, Joe Dante had busted a Colombian drug enforcer and earned a price on his head. Now Dante is back at work, trying to find the killer who came after him, and finding more murders every step of his way.

THE HUNT
From New York to Miami, a trail of broken bodies and shattered lives leads the New York cop closer to his quarry. But in a puzzle with a thousand pieces, Dante is missing the most dangerous one of all: who is the traitor on his own side?

Blockbuster Praise for Christopher Newman

“KILLER IS A KILLER, JOE DANTE IS ONE OF THE BEST OF THE MODERN MANHUNTERS, AND HE GETS BETTER IN EVERY BOOK”
—DONALD E. WESTLAKE

“CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN WRITES CRISP, LEAN, ACTION-FILLED BOOKS WHICH UNFAILINGLY WHIRL THE READER ALONG TOWARD THEIR TAKE-NO-PRISONERS CONCLUSIONS.”
—PETER STRAUB

“HARD HITTING, SUSPENSEFUL. NEWMAN REALLY KNOWS THE TERRITORY”
—William Caunitz, author of ONE POLICE PLAZA and SUSPECTS

“JOE DANTE IS ONE OF THE BEST OF THE MODERN MANHUNTERS, AND HE GETS BETTER IN EVERY BOOK.”
—Donald E. Westlake

“NEWMAN IS ONE OF THE BEST IN THE BUSINESS.”
—William J. Caunitz

“LIEUTENANT JOE DANTE'S NEW YORK SIZZLES.”
—Lawrence Block

“NEWMAN PROVES ONCE AGAIN THAT HE CAN WRITE A GREAT STORY.”
—W.E.B. Griffin

323 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 1, 1996

About the author

Born in San Francisco, California in 1952, Christopher Newman was educated in Bay Area Catholic schools, the University of California at Santa Cruz and Birmingham University, England. He travelled overland from Europe across the Asian subcontinent to Singapore alone in his late teens. Before he was 21 he'd worked for a year aboard a tanker plying trade between the Persian Gulf and ports around the Pacific rim. He wrote the first draft of his third published novel, Manana Man, while in residence in Cali, Colombia his senior year in college. At 27, he moved to New York City, working as a trim carpenter for five years in Manhattan before publishing his first Joe Dante novel, Midtown South, in 1985. When that title met with considerable commercial success, his publisher convinced him to turn his protagonist into a series character. Eight more Joe Dante novels followed, all making various national best seller lists. Midtown North, published in 1991, was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award by the Mystery Writers of America. Chains of Command, left unfinished at the time of best-selling author William Caunitz death in 1998, was completed by Mr. Newman at the estate's request. It was named a 1999 New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

Mr. Newman left New York in 2002 and currently resides in Lexington, Kentucky.

Reviews

[Avard MacPhee · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the first book I have read by this author but will not be my last. A very interesting read from start to finish with many many twists and turns from many perspectives. 4.25 Stars

[Ken Ficara]

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