About This Book
John Westermann now creates surefire suspense inside the corrupt and deadly world of Long Island politics -- where the quest for power collides head-on with the search for justice in a twisting police investigation.
In the final weeks of a cutthroat campaign, the disappearance of Elizabeth Lucido, top aide to Nassau County Executive Martin Daly, is big news -- and the press is as hungry for details as the cops are. What they know is shocking enough: On the night that she vanished, Lucido had a hot rendezvous with Jackson Hind, her secret lover and Daly's Democratic opponent. Now, with theories of kidnapping and murder running rampant, a frightening pattern is emerging: Elizabeth Lucido is not the first woman in the Nassau GOP to turn up missing. And she won't be the last.
The case is a time bomb for Police Commissioner Frank Murphy, an honest man facing a political machine fueled by dirty money and dirtier deals. And there's enough dirt surrounding the missing women to bury everyone -- including Murphy himself. The deeper his brass probe, the closer a brutal predator moves toward destroying the commissioner. Knowing how the game is played, he calls on his toughest detectives, officers Maude Fleming and Rocky Blair to unlock the chilling secrets behind the disappearances.
Under Murphy's command, Fleming and Blair trust no one but each other as they descend into a sinister world where ambition walks on the jagged edge of brutality and cold-blooded violence. And as Murphy's finest press into the most sensitive areas and lock horns with Long Island's ruthless power players, they find silence can be deceptive. Together, they must stay alive in a murderous race -- or be crushed by their deadliest, most indiscernible enemy.
With gripping realism and ironic wit, John Westermann portrays the hierarchies, the good guys and the lowlifes of the political arena -- and the cop world -- in LADIES OF THE NIGHT, and delivers first rate suspense fiction with the powerful punch of a tabloid headline.
