The Con Man's Daughter »

Banished NYPD cop Eddie Dunne's daughter has been kidnapped by the Russian Mob for something he's done. But the cops and the feds give him no help. Now he must find out which of his misdeeds will lead him to his daughter—or to his death.

The New York Times

Dee, who put in 20 years with the New York Police Department's Organized Crime Unit, still has his nose to the ground. Writing with chilling intimacy about the infrastructure of ''the new, improved Russian mafiya'' entrenched in Brighton Beach, he cites chapter and verse on the Medicare scams, gas tax fraud and other local criminal enterprises that finance the international traffic in ''Russian antiaircraft missiles, submachine guns, assault carbines, plutonium-enriched uranium and anthrax.'' With his terrific eye for detail and his uncanny ear for the music of raw speech, Dee is hanging right up there with the big boys. — Marilyn Stasio