Gill Burke is the toughest cop in New York, and he gets results. That is, until the mob decide he's too dangerous and pull strings, seeing him dishonourably removed from the force.
But Gill is still the only cop who knows how the mob operate, and when their top people start to be put out of business - violently - Gill is persuaded by a DA, who's running scared, to put his badge back on and find the killer.
Gill's investigation has hardly begun when he becomes involved with Helen, who is on the syndicate's payroll, and Helga, a Swedish blonde. But even with these diversions, Gill finds himself trapped in a bloody vendetta, pitted against a faceless assassin whose aim is destruction ...
- ISBN10 0451087860
- ISBN13 9780451087867
- Publish Date 1 October 1973 (first published 17 September 1973)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 July 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Signet Book
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Language English