| AND JUSTICE FOR ONE: A JACK DEVLIN NOVEL |
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The smashing fiction debut for John Clarkson, the story of how one man fights back against a violent city out of control. Jack Devlin is a former Secret Service agent, now an investigator for a West Coast security firm, who comes to New York as a private citizen to attend his father's funeral. When, after the burial, he goes out for a whiskey-soaked evening with his brother George, Devlin has no idea that this will lead him into a more harrowing assignment than anything he has faced before. Sometime during their bar-hopping, Jack's brother disappears. Later, George is found comatose and on the edge of death, the result of a savage beating. For the cops, it's just another mugging; for Devlin, this is an outrage that must be avenged. He embarks on his own investigation, which takes him into the depths of the after-hours club scene: beer-stained dives where night owls gamble, underground discos, and funky SoHo lounges where sex is the entertainment and cocaine is as available as liquor. Devlin's investigation leads him to Robert Wexler, a cool, aristocratic sadist who rules over a network of illegal clubs. It also leads him to some of Wexler's important friends in the New York City Police Department. When, finally, it leads him into a sexually charged relationship with Wexler's mistress, the stage is set for a devastating confrontation.
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