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From the bestselling author of Sleepers and former
writer/producer of Law & Order comes another high-octane New York
City crime drama pulsing with energy. In Lorenzo Carcaterra’s
Chasers, the street-smart
and highly specialized cadre of renegade NYPD cops last depicted in his
acclaimed novel Apaches
returns in a new tale of action and suspense.
It’s 1985, and the city that never sleeps is about to wish it had stayed
in bed. The heinous machine-gun murder of innocent bystanders in a
Manhattan restaurant shocks all five boroughs. The brutal slaying
propels the surviving members of the Apaches–controversial,
take-’em-down, outside-the-law ex-cops–into investigating a Colombian
drug cartel responsible for distributing millions of kilos of cocaine on
American shores.
Along for the harrowing ride with Boomer, Dead-Eye, and Reverend Jim are
three new Apaches: Ash, a wounded female Hispanic cop who specializes in
arson investigations; Quincy, an HIV-positive recruit who’s a forensics
expert; and a retired police dog named Buttercup, a Neapolitan
bullmastiff who is no ordinary animal but a gold-shield detective,
highly decorated for his skills at sniffing out illegal drugs. Now this
dedicated team will become Chasers, working multiple cases that will
converge into one explosive, all-out street war.
They will face a gallery of formidable enemies: Quinones, a mysterious
and deadly assassin; the Boiler Man, a killer as ruthless as he is
cunning; Angel, a former priest turned cartel boss, determined to end
his career as the richest drug baron in the world; and the G-Men, a band
of dealers and doers determined to maintain their iron grip on the
cocaine trade–no matter how much blood is spilled.
Fueled by Lorenzo Carcaterra’s adrenaline-rush prose and peopled with
uncommon heroes and merciless crime lords tearing through city streets,
Chasers proves to be this acclaimed author’s most intense novel to date.
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REVIEWS
"A man, holding a cup of coffee, stares down at the
body of a young girl at a crime scene. The man has absolutely no
business there: he's wandered into the restaurant where the murder
occurred--the scene has already been roped off--and starts chatting with
one of the investigators. Anyone with even a scrap of knowledge about
crime scenes will know instantly how utterly inexcusable this procedural
lapse is, but it's the opening premise of Carcaterra's latest vigilante
mystery. The little girl is the man's niece, giving a very tortured
entry point for his involvement in the case, which leads to a Colombian
drug cartel. The man is a former NYPD detective, now one of a renegade
group of vigilant crime fighters introduced in Carcaterra's
Apaches (1997). Like
Burke in Andrew Vachss' series about another no-holds-barred vigilante,
the Apaches, all former cops, fight a never ending war against crime,
unburdened by the strictures of the legal system ... Carcaterra has
amassed a significant following, stretching back to his critically
celebrated debut, Sleepers (1995), and his latest will be eagerly
awaited."
-- Booklist - Connie Fletcher
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