Only Child

Matthew Sperber leads a small team of men within the the more obscure caches of NYPD intelligence. When the son of his former boss, and mentor, turns up dead in Budapest, he immediately goes to work on finding the one responsible. After receiving a mysterious package through underground channels out of Eastern Europe, he disperses his forces in search of the answer to this puzzle. Meanwhile, a car, carrying four young women, explodes in a town on the western end of Long Island, killing all those inside. The local authorities, as well as the FBI, are clueless as to the method and motive. But the incident threatens to uncover a scandal from within the legislative and lawful structures of the County. Can the detective assigned to the case handle all these components- solving the murder and expose the scandal within his department? This question, as well as others, help to ignite a confluence of forces converging on their answers in this thrilling debut novel from Paul Duque.