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RAT ISLAND

John Steele

A raw, dark and morally complex novel which presents a searing portrait of mid-1990s New York
New York, 1995.
Cop Callum Burke arrives in New York from Hong Kong, drafted in as part of an international investigation into organised crime.

With the handover of Hong Kong to China only a couple of years away, gangsters are moving their operations out of the territory and into New York ahead of the looming deadline.

Burke's experiences with East Asian crime and the Triads' links to the Irish Mob make him the perfect man to send in undercover.
But as he infiltrates these vast and lethal criminal networks, bodies start to pile up in his wake and his conscience threatens to send him over the edge.

And when Burke's NYPD handlers push him to continue the investigation at all costs, he may have to cross the line from cop to criminal just to stay alive..
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Published 2021-07-22 by Silvertail Books

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This is Steele's fourth novel and one that should make him if he isn't already a stablemate of the likes of Michael Connelly. Intricate plotting, characters making questionable moral choices, gut-wrenching action and a momentum that never flags all make for a work that takes a pneumatic drill to the fragile veneer of respectability that disguises modern, urban life. Read more...

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RAT ISLAND never lets up for a moment in its relentless depiction of its violent but viscerally authentic world. Read more...