Johnny Careless

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A fast-moving classic crime novel (John Sandford) crafted by the veteran screenwriter and showrunner for the acclaimed police procedural series Blue Bloods, Johnny Careless is Kevin Wades razor-sharp debut novel.

Police Chief Jeep Mullane has been bounced back home to Long Islands North Shore by a heartbreaking case that both earned him his NYPD detectives shield and burned him out of the Job. Now heading up a small local police department, he finds himself navigating the same geography he did growing up there as the son of an NYPD cop. Jeep is a have-not among the glittering haves, a sharp-witted, down-to-earth man in a territory defined and ruled by multigenerational wealth and power and the daunting tribal codes and customs that come with it.

When the corpse of Jeeps childhood friend Johnny Chamblissborn into privilege and known as Johnny Careless for his reckless, golden-boy anticssurfaces in the Bayville waters, past collides with present, and Jeep is pulled into a treacherous web. He is challenged by Johnnys wealthy and secretive family and his beautiful, enigmatic ex-wife as he untangles a knotted mystery fraught with theft, corrupt local moguls, and decades-old secrets, all while grappling with his own deep-seated grief for his lost pal.

A fast-paced story, Johnny Careless combines grit and wit in a way that conjures Donald Westlake or Robert Parker in full stride (Carl Hiassen).