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The unforgettable detective introduced in The Timothy Files returns in a game of scandals, scams, and gangland massacres.A WINNER! (New York Times)
Wall Street's premier detective is back, matching wits with a whole. new cast of deadly sinners.
The dark side of New York's financial district is where the top guns and the lowlifes are often interchangeable. And nobody knows it better than Timothy Cone. He's the stock-market op who can spot a scam from clear across town. That's Timothy's game, and he's a master of it.
Timothy's not the best-dressed guy in the world, and he wouldn't make it through a temperance meeting, but he's got physical skills he picked up in Nam and a mind that's sharper than a shiv. He's also got a moth-eaten cat, with whom he enjoys a purely gustatorial relationship, and a pistol of a girlfriend, who's also his boss.
Cone's definitely one of a kind, as are the uniquely complex cases he tackles as he plies his trade.
For instance, there's the insider-trading leak, involving purloined garbage, mob rubouts, and a spirited gangster's daughter who takes the Market for a long and larcenous ride....
Plus the massacre of the megalomaniac entrepreneur. Everybody hated him, but only one person had him hit. What was the motive-business or pleasure?
Plus the mysterious run on the stock of a Chinese food firm, which quickly becomes a farrago of gangland rivalries, bent passions, and intimate betrayals....
From tong sieges in Chinatown to Fifth Avenue penthouses to the twisting byways of Wall Street itself, Timothy's Game is as compelling a portrait of New York-from the bottom of the barrel to the top of the heap-as any you've encountered.
In addition to mixing great characters, fascinating settings, and puzzler plots into an intoxicating cocktail, Lawrence Sanders has given us yet another memorable sleuth.
ISBN:0399133682
