Synopses & Reviews
New York City school teacher Raymond Donne has no idea how bad his night is going to get when he picks up the phone. Ricky Torres, his old friend from his days as a cop, needs Rays help, and he needs it right now---in the middle of the night. Ricky picks Ray up in the taxi hes been driving since returning from serving as a marine in Iraq, but before Ricky can tell Ray whats going on, the windows of the taxi explode under a hail of bullets killing Ricky and knocking Ray unconscious as he dives to pull his friend out of harms way.
Ray wouldve done anything to help Ricky out while he was alive. Now that hes dead, hell go to the same lengths to find out who did it and why. All he has to go on is that Ricky was working with Jack Knight, Rays old nemesis, another ex-cop turned PI. They were investigating the disappearance of a PR giants daughter who had ties to the same Brooklyn streets that all three of them used to work. Is that what got Ricky killed or was he into something even more dangerous? Was there anything that Ray couldve done for him while he was alive? Is there anything he can do for him now?
Filled with the kinds of unexpected twists that make for the best crime fiction, and with secrets that run far deeper than loyalties, Dead Red is the most thrilling mystery yet in Tim OMaras widely acclaimed series.
Review
"Tim OMaras Dead Red is pitch perfect, and Raymond Donne is a beautifully flawed Brooklyn hero."
--Reed Farrel Coleman, author of Robert B. Parkers Blind Spot
About the Author
TIM O'MARA, author of Crooked Numbers and the Barry Award--nominated Sacrifice Fly, is a teacher in the New York City public-school system. He lives in Manhattans Hells Kitchen with his wife and daughter. Dead Red is his third Raymond Donne mystery.