Police commissioner Isaac Sidel struggles to keep the New York Police Department from shattering
When he was the police commissioner’s first deputy, Isaac Sidel was one of the most powerful men in New York. But now that he’s been promoted to the top job, there’s nothing for Sidel to do but stare at his desk and feed the tapeworm that’s attached to his stomach.
The Justice Department sends him on a lecture tour of the country, but after one too many lunches with small-town mayors, Sidel goes AWOL and comes back to New York, getting in touch with the Ivanhoes, his illegal network of secret informants. A missing mob lawyer, a baseball-obsessed orphan genius, and a mysterious Romanian princess point towards a mystery that only he can tackle. Justice wants him back on tour, but something is rumbling beneath the city, and Sidel needs to be there to see it explode.
From Publishers Weekly
Frustrated by inaction and societal indifference, New York police commissioner Isaac Sidel returns from a lecture tour to embark on a romantic search for his Anastasia'' and investigate social pathology.Charyn's high-energy, idiosyncratic prose is a perfect match for his hero . . . and his ricochet course through Manhattan's nine circles in his latest, complex adventure,'' said PW.
Copyright 1991 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
With practiced aplomb, Charyn puts New York City police commissioner Isaac Sidel, a tough, milk-swigging Jewish baseball nut, through his independent, if somewhat cliched paces. Cutting short a lecture tour, Sidel returns to New York, where he hopes to uncover the whereabouts of a missing gay lawyer for the mob, a mob accountant-in-hiding, and a former Romanian "princess" (and ex-lover of her Nazi uncle) now linked with the same mob. Isaac employs unorthodox procedures, disregards the directives of his powerful Justice Department boss, and ends up in jail himself as a mob connection. Rapid action, quickly defined minor characters, and the World War II association should attract a wide audience. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Police commissioner Isaac Sidel struggles to keep the New York Police Department from shattering
When he was the police commissioner’s first deputy, Isaac Sidel was one of the most powerful men in New York. But now that he’s been promoted to the top job, there’s nothing for Sidel to do but stare at his desk and feed the tapeworm that’s attached to his stomach.
The Justice Department sends him on a lecture tour of the country, but after one too many lunches with small-town mayors, Sidel goes AWOL and comes back to New York, getting in touch with the Ivanhoes, his illegal network of secret informants. A missing mob lawyer, a baseball-obsessed orphan genius, and a mysterious Romanian princess point towards a mystery that only he can tackle. Justice wants him back on tour, but something is rumbling beneath the city, and Sidel needs to be there to see it explode.
From Publishers Weekly
Frustrated by inaction and societal indifference, New York police commissioner Isaac Sidel returns from a lecture tour to embark on a romantic search for his
Anastasia'' and investigate social pathology.Charyn's high-energy, idiosyncratic prose is a perfect match for his hero . . . and his ricochet course through Manhattan's nine circles in his latest, complex adventure,'' said PW.Copyright 1991 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
With practiced aplomb, Charyn puts New York City police commissioner Isaac Sidel, a tough, milk-swigging Jewish baseball nut, through his independent, if somewhat cliched paces. Cutting short a lecture tour, Sidel returns to New York, where he hopes to uncover the whereabouts of a missing gay lawyer for the mob, a mob accountant-in-hiding, and a former Romanian "princess" (and ex-lover of her Nazi uncle) now linked with the same mob. Isaac employs unorthodox procedures, disregards the directives of his powerful Justice Department boss, and ends up in jail himself as a mob connection. Rapid action, quickly defined minor characters, and the World War II association should attract a wide audience.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.