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NIGHT LIFE

David C. Taylor

NIGHT LIFE by David C. Taylor is the first installment of a new 1950s-noir crime series.

New York City in 1954. The Cold War is heating up. Senator Joe McCarthy is running a witch hunt for Communists in America. The newly formed CIA is fighting a turf battle with the FBI to see who will be the primary US intelligence agency. And the bodies of murdered young men are turning up in the city. Michael Cassidy has an unusual background for a New York cop. His father, a refugee from Eastern Europe, is a successful Broadway producer. His godfather is Frank Costello, a Mafia boss. Cassidy also has an unusual way of going about the business of being a cop—maybe that’s why he threw a fellow officer out a third story window of the Cortland Hotel. Cassidy is assigned to the case of Alexander Ingram, a Broadway chorus dancer found tortured and dead in his apartment in Hell’s Kitchen. Complications grow as other young men are murdered one after the other. And why are the FBI, the CIA, and the Mafia interested in the death of a Broadway gypsy? Meanwhile, a mysterious, beautiful woman moves into Cassidy’s building in Greenwich Village. Is Dylan McCue a lover or an enemy? Cassidy is plagued by nightmares—dreams that sometimes become reality. And he has been dreaming that someone is coming to kill him. ? DAVID C. TAYLOR was born and raised in New York City. He spent twenty years in Los Angeles writing for television and the movies. He has published short stories and magazine articles, and has had an Off-Broadway musical produced in New York. He now divides his time between Boston and the coast of Maine.

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Book Published 2015-03-17 by Forge/Macmillan

Comments

The action is fierce, the dialogue crackles, and the whole thing just sings with authenticity. It’s terrific entertainment, and more than that, it’s a warning about letting power-hungry men have too much power in any era.

A heart-stopping bullet train of a novel with action and atmosphere to burn.

Taylor, a seasoned writer for TV and film, makes a strong debut with the first in a series of novels featuring a hard-edged but properly vulnerable detective.

NYPD detective Michael Cassidy is a cross between Jack Reacher and Philip Marlowe, only tougher.

David Taylor’s Night Life grabs you on the first page and never lets go. [It’s a] recipe for a page-burner… You won’t put this dish down until you’ve swallowed every bite.

A gripping and evocative thriller about sex, murder, and secrets in 1950s New York.

David Taylor has written a beautiful, blood-spattered love poem to the New York [City] of the 1950s. For all its noir credentials, Night Life is tender as well, alive as much to an era’s innocence as to its corruption.

The suspense mounts with the body count. Readers will want to see more of the distinctive Cassidy, whose wealthy background as the son of a Broadway producer puts him at odds with his fellow cops.

An impeccably detailed, evocative portrait of New York City in 1954. A compelling story of corruption, Cold War intrigue, CIA-FBI turf wars, and murder… [Night Life]] is an enthralling read.

Night Life is an honest-to-God, up-all-night, one-sitting read.

Set against the backdrop of the Cold War and the rising power of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, this debut novel’s atmosphere is suffused with paranoia and bitterness. With a strong opening and definite sense of place, Taylor has much to offer as a writer.