West Side

Thorn Savage NYPD #4

by John Mackie

In a Manhattan bar, two strangers pick up a soon-to-be-dead look-alike for one of them. After pulling off a flawless one-and-a-half million dollar insurance fraud, the perpetrators decide that one perfect scam deserves another. As Detective Sergeant Thorn Savage and his Manhattan South Homicide squad enter the investigation, they are drawn into the city's seamy underbelly where dangerous fun-and the answers to an ingenious murder case-await those who know where to look.

384 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published October 4, 2005

About the author

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, John spent his early years dreaming of baseball glory and idolizing the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field. Though his path didn’t lead to third base, it did take him to the streets of New York City as a decorated police officer. During his 17-year career with the NYPD—serving in Times Square, Harlem, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Brownsville—he earned over thirty commendations, including the Medal of Valor.
Forced into early retirement due to injury, John embarked on a new chapter as a writer, channeling his passion and grit into fiction. His debut novel Manhattan South was published by NAL/Penguin in 2002, followed by Manhattan North, East Side, West Side, and To Kill a Queen (2012). He now lives in Florida, continuing to write with the same determination that guided him on the beat.