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THE FAIRFAX INCIDENT by Terrence McCauley mystery
“A total knockout. A slam-bang mystery and a story that just won’t quit. You will not put it down.”
—Timothy Hallinan, author of the Poke Rafferty and Junior Bender novels
AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR TERRENCE MCCAULEY TAKES YOU BACK TO A TIME WHEN BOOZE WAS OUTLAWED, CRIME RAN RAMPANT, AND NEW YORK CITY WAS A POWDER KEG WAITING TO EXPLODE…
Manhattan, 1933. Charlie Doherty may have been kicked off the force after the Grand Central Massacre, but thanks to a wealthy benefactor, his private detective business is booming. Catering to the city’s wealthy elite, Doherty is making a good living chasing down wayward spouses and runaway socialites when the case of a lifetime lands in his lap. Mrs. Fairfax, a wealthy widow, hires Doherty to prove her husband’s suicide wasn’t actually a suicide. It was murder.
At his benefactor’s urging, Doherty takes the case. He expects to pocket a nice chunk of change to prove what everyone already knows: Walter Fairfax walked into his office in the Empire State Building one morning, took a phone call, and shot himself. But Charlie took the widow’s money, so he begins to dig.
He quickly finds out there is more to the Fairfax incident than a simple suicide. Before long, he discovers that Mr. Fairfax was leading a double life; running with a dangerous crowd that has a sinister agenda that threatens to plunge Charlie’s city—and his country—into another war.
In an investigation that quickly involves global implications, Doherty finds himself against not only some of the most powerful people in New York City, but against the
most evil men in the world.
“All the right stuff when it comes to a good, no, a great thriller.”
—Marc Cameron, New York Times bestselling author of Field of Fire
—Timothy Hallinan, author of the Poke Rafferty and Junior Bender novels
AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR TERRENCE MCCAULEY TAKES YOU BACK TO A TIME WHEN BOOZE WAS OUTLAWED, CRIME RAN RAMPANT, AND NEW YORK CITY WAS A POWDER KEG WAITING TO EXPLODE…
Manhattan, 1933. Charlie Doherty may have been kicked off the force after the Grand Central Massacre, but thanks to a wealthy benefactor, his private detective business is booming. Catering to the city’s wealthy elite, Doherty is making a good living chasing down wayward spouses and runaway socialites when the case of a lifetime lands in his lap. Mrs. Fairfax, a wealthy widow, hires Doherty to prove her husband’s suicide wasn’t actually a suicide. It was murder.
At his benefactor’s urging, Doherty takes the case. He expects to pocket a nice chunk of change to prove what everyone already knows: Walter Fairfax walked into his office in the Empire State Building one morning, took a phone call, and shot himself. But Charlie took the widow’s money, so he begins to dig.
He quickly finds out there is more to the Fairfax incident than a simple suicide. Before long, he discovers that Mr. Fairfax was leading a double life; running with a dangerous crowd that has a sinister agenda that threatens to plunge Charlie’s city—and his country—into another war.
In an investigation that quickly involves global implications, Doherty finds himself against not only some of the most powerful people in New York City, but against the
most evil men in the world.
“All the right stuff when it comes to a good, no, a great thriller.”
—Marc Cameron, New York Times bestselling author of Field of Fire
Terrence McCauley is the award-winning author of three James Hicks thrillers: Sympathy for the Devil, A Murder of Crows, and A Conspiracy of Ravens, as well as two historical crime novels, Prohibition and Slow Burn, all available from Polis Books. A proud native of Bronx, NY, he is currently writing his next work of fiction. Visit him at www.terrencemccauley.com or at @tmccauley_ny
