Lt. Joe Dante Books
The rich, the poor, and the evil take on two New York cops in a gripping novel that rips the city wide open.
"Newman really knows the territory." WIlliam Caunitz Author of ONE POLICE PLAZA A millionaire art collector is hacked to death with a kitchen knife, his precioous paintings slashed to bits; a fat-cat neurosurgeon is slapped with a killer malpractice suit that could ruin his marriage, his practice, and his torrid affair with a cokehead. Brilliant detective Joe Dante, formerly of Midtown South, now assigned to the sixth precinct, is tracking down the killer, when an even more baffling murder forces him to question everything and everyone he knows....
The designer of the trend-setting new sportswear line of the Close Apparel label is found bludgeoned to death in the corporate offices. Missing items point to a piracy ring that could cost the company plenty. Still, Detective Joe Dante wonders whether cheap off-the-rack knock-offs are worth killing for. An arrogant U.S. Treasury Agent shows up and steps all over Dante's case. A beautiful model is targeted for death. For Joe Dante, there's a lot more at stake than the new fall line . . .
A big shot cop from Internal Affairs is found dead in a Hell's Kitchen alley. The official report says the shooter was a local lowlife, but Detective Joe Dante knows that the cops from Internal Affairs have more enemies on the Force than off it. Was the cop murdered by one of his own? As Dante presses his investigation, the department closes ranks, and soon Dante must put his own life on the line to stop the killer from striking again . . .
"Tough, gritty suspenseful...Newman is one of the best in the business." William J. Caunitz Author of EXCEPTIONAL CLEARANCE A ruthless IRA terrorist is loose on the streets of New York City. A C.E.O. and his mistress are killed execution-style. Joe Dante has let the terrorist get away once before. This time, he's going deep undercover and into the crime-infested New York underworld ruled by the merciless Irish mob, the Westies to trab his quarry. With the mob and the terrorists calling the shots, Dante's got to live by their rules...or die by them.
"Newmanis oneof the best in the business." William J. Caunitz Author of EXCEPTIONAL CLEARANCE Even cynical New York City is rocked by the brutal murder of Congresswoman Cora Davis. Lt. Joe Dante's only suspect are the last two people to see Davis alive: the lead singer in the rock megaband Crucifixion and the wife of a right-wing Southern senator. As Dante is caught up in a tangle of hypocrisy and intrigue, angry NYPD brass are breathing down his neck, and he's up to his chin in blackmail, sex scandals, cover-ups and new bodies. If he doesn't crack this case, his badge is on the line--but trapping his vicious prey means putting himself in the line of fire....
Suspecting foul play when a major-league pitcher is found dead of a drug overdose just before the last game of the playoffs, Detective Lieutenant Joe Dante and his partner, Jumbo Richardson, wonder who would profit from a Yankees victory. Reprint.
When maverick New York detective Joe Dante is ambushed in the middle of the street out of revenge, the lieutenant begins his hunt for killer who had come after him, following a trail of dead bodies closer to his quarry--and a shattering betrayal. Original.
Detective Joe Dante lives in a downtown loft and hangs with an uptown crowd. A cop who doesn't act, talk, or play like other cops, Dante's got Brooklyn-bred street smarts and a half-finished Ph.D. dissertation on his bookshelf. But when a man is struck down by a car outside a posh Manhattan hotel, Dante is plunged into a world like no other he's ever seen. The victim was a corporate executive. The killer was a hit-and-run driver. And when Dante and his team investigate the accident, they find a billion-dollar stock-market deal and the tracks of a Wall Street financier gone missing from his Sutton Place co-op. Now Dante is putting together the jagged pieces of a puzzle of sex, money, ambition, and high-tech fraud. It's a hunt that will take him from the pinnacle of high finance to Manhattan's meanest streets. Because Detective Joe Dante is chasing a man who has a thirty-eight-million-dollar motive for murder--multiple murder--and the cunning to get away wit