Ladies of the Night

Called the only cop writer who can dance the high wire between humour and hell, John Westermann's explosive crime novels shatter the blue wall of silence. In LADIES OF THE NIGHT Westermann takes us inside a twisting police investigation where the quest for power collides head on with the search for justice.

When a top aide in Nassau County's government office goes missing during the final weeks of a cut-throat campaign, and it comes out that she was having a torrid affair with the Democratic Candidate, Police Commissioner Frank Murphy calls in his toughtest detectives, Maude Fleming and Rocky Blair. As they descend into a sinister world where political ambition walks on the jagged edge of brutality and cold blooded violence, they lock horns with Long Islands's ruthless power players. Together they must stay alive in a murderous race - or be crushed by their deadliest and most discernable enemy.

With gripping realism and ironic wit, Westermann portrays the heirachies, the good guys and the low lifes of the political arena ...and the cop world.