Chasers: a novel (1st ed.)

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 Carcaterras 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.Its 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 Apachescontroversial, take-em-down, outside-the-law ex-copsinto 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 whos 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 tradeno matter how much blood is spilled.Fueled by Lorenzo Carcaterras adrenaline-rush prose and peopled with uncommon heroes and merciless crime lords tearing through city streets, Chasers proves to be this acclaimed authors most intense novel to date.From the Hardcover edition.