Neptune Avenue
In the chill of winter a homemade coffin drifts ashore in Red Hook, containing the body of a boy with the lettersG.I. written on his forehead. Detective Jack Leightner of the Brooklyn South Homicide Task Force is assigned to help a local detective with the case, but the man proves strangely uninterested. The investigation keeps interfering with Jack's attempts to propose to his girlfriend, as his pursuit of the killer takes him on a whirlwind tour of hidden parts of New York harbor, from the secret world of Governor's Island to the graving docks of the old Brooklyn Navy Yard.
This eagerly-awaited sequel to Red Hook is even richer in atmosphere, action, and mysteries of the human heart.