A friend of a friend, Grace Kinkaid, comes to Spero with a job: steal back a painting that a con-man recently walked off with. Having disappeared from her life as mysteriously as he appeared, Grace needs to know who he is and if he’s pulling the same tricks with others. Can Spero track down the…
Beginning in the late seventies and stretching over a near thirty year period, Don Winslow’s The Power of the Dog follows organized crime and the devastation left in its wake. In The Power of the Dog, Winslow heavily features the Mexican drug war, but he also tackles the mob in New York City, prostitution in…
Shortly after returning home following a stint in the U.S. Marines, Spero Lucas took up working as a freelance investigator. Occasionally picking up work for a prominent defence attorney in Washington D.C, Lucas helped to clear a case involving the son of an imprisoned drug dealer. Impressed with his work, said drug dealer offers Lucas…
The Spider-Slayer is locked up in an island prison off the coast of New York City awaiting execution for a brutal murder. Despite overwhelming danger, Mayor J. Jonah Jameson insists on being present. I’d like to say everything goes smoothly, but there wouldn’t be much of a story then would there? Just before he’s set…
Gil “Hop” Hopkins works as a publicist for a major Hollywood studio where he specializes in twisting the truth and covering up conspiracies. He’s approached by a young woman accusing him of omitting details surrounding the disappearance of her friend, actress Jean Spangler. While he tries to sell her on the tired excuse of “I…
Forced into paying off his dead brother’s debts, Tracy Lawless has been employed as a hitman for powerful crime boss, Sebastian Hyde. For the past year, Tracy has been knocking off slimy folks deemed expendable by his maniacal master. However, there’s been some issues with Tracy’s efficiency. Regardless of his orders, Tracy has to make…
Jake spends his days in a waking coma. He walks the streets at night, produces a syndicated comic strip during the day, and grabs sleep when he can. It’s not a bad life considering he was once accused of murdering his wife, a charge he managed to avoid due to a lack of evidence. But…
Seeing as Matt Scudder ages along with his creator, Lawrence Block doesn’t feel there’s much interest in following the activities of a detective in his mid-70s. Rather than write a follow-up to All The Flowers Are Dying, Block backtracks about thirty years, all the way back to Scudder’s first year of sobriety where he finds…
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