White Dragon (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798235883888)

New York. Night of January 8, 2024.

Forty-two overdoses in a matter of hours in Chinatown. Detective Jack Malone of the 5th Precinct and his new partner Ethan Rivera take the case before dawn.

What they find in the alleys of Mott Street, Pell Street, and Doyers Street quickly exceeds what they anticipated: ritualistic bodies marked with calligraphed ideograms announcing death sentences with specific dates, a synthetic drug distribution network fueled by a front charity foundation, and corrupted connections inside the very institutions meant to help them.

They'll have to work alone. Twenty-seven days. Without trusting the usual channels. Building a case piece by piece from the basements of anonymous buildings to the bank statements of a shell company in Maryland.

At the end of those twenty-seven days: twenty-eight arrests in four cities. And a sentence spoken in an airport terminal by a sixty-two-year-old man watching New York for the last time through the window of a federal vehicle.

It took less time than I thought it would.