When Hell’s Kitchen-born Private Investigator Fritz Malone witnesses an assassination on Thanksgiving and tries to chase down the killer, he never thought that his act of humanitarianism would lead him into a nightmare of complications. He gets hustled to the police station where he is informed by the new police commissioner that someone named “Nightmare” has been threatening New York City’s leaders for weeks with attacks on the citizenry, with eyes and ears everywhere, unless the city’s officials meet his tall demands. The need for secrecy is high — even the rest NYPD isn’t involved — so an outside guy is needed, which the new police commissioner sees in Malone. Racing against time, Malone uncovers the frustration of a killer who wears many masks, an investigation that takes him all over New York City, and gruesome secrets that emerge from both sides of the law.

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