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On the Dark Side, things aren't always what they appear to be.
That's the way it looks to private eye Frank Boff when his friend, boxer Danny Cullen, gets caught in the middle of a drive-by shooting between two Brooklyn street gangs, the Bloods and the Jamaican Posse. A bullet grazes Cullen's head as he hurls himself to the ground with his trainer, Ryan McAlary. A second trainer, Nino Biaggi, isn't so lucky. He takes three to the head and is dead before he hits concrete.
The cops say Cullen and the two trainers were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. But when Boff hears about it, he isn't buying it. No way. No how. He thinks the drive-by was staged, that Cullen was the target of a well-planned assassination attempt.
So Boff hops a plane from his home in Vegas and flies to New York, where Cullen is in training for a big fight at the famed Madison Square Garden. The private eye launches an investigation into the shooting, and when he turns up evidence that the drive-by was indeed faked, an angry Cullen once again joins forces with Boff.
Their investigation will take them into a dangerous shadow world where powerful people are playing a game of high-stakes poker in order to pull off a multi-million dollar scam. When Boff is nearly gunned down in another assassination attempt, he and Cullen are now dead set on not only stopping the scam but punishing the people involved in a way that's more just than justice.
Review ''Nathan Gottlieb has done it again, this time unleashing Frank Boff on Gotham and allowing him to turn over three boroughs of New York City and expose every hideous worm beneath. And as a bonus, we meet The Boffer's mom -- a 72-year-old numbers runner who packs a Remington 20-gauge. Crime fiction devotees should take note: The Boff-Cullen Series, just two volumes old, is already at full boil.'' ( Dave D'Alessandro, Newark Star-Ledger)
''Frank Boff, the ex-DEA legend turned private investigator is back in action! When Boff's friend, boxer Danny Cullen, is almost gunned down in a drive-by shooting in Brooklyn, the investigator travels from Vegas to New York, determined to find out who was gunning for him.
In his funny and breezy writing style, Gottlieb follows Boff and Cullen along the mean Brooklyn streets and the hip night clubs of NYC to reach a startling and exciting conclusion. I dare you to find a writer that gives you a detective as funny and original as Frank Boff.'' ( Jochem Vandersteen, author of the Noah Milano mystery series and the website, Sons of Spade )
About the Author A former reporter for The {Newark} Star-Ledger, Nathan Gottlieb is the author of The Hurting Game , the first Frank Boff Mystery. He has also published two other books, Stinger , and The Zukovka Experiment . Gottlieb lives in New York, where he writes for HBO's boxing website and is working on the third book in his series, The Killer Sex Game . For more about the Frank Boff Mystery Series and Nathan Gottlieb visit his website at nathangottlieb.com
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