Overview
When NYPD Lieutenant Ted Lamont is murdered on the job his family and friends are left with a troubling mystery, until Hurricane Sandy changes their lives forever. While the members of Ted's former stakeout squad close ranks and reminisce about the bad old days, his widow Beverly moves into their retirement home of the south shore of Long Island, where she decides to ride out the super-storm, while middle son Sean is on watch as a rookie cop in Manhattan. What is revealed after the floodwaters recede pits Beverly and young officer Sean Lamont against two detectives from internal affairs, the hard-boiled veterans of the stakeout squad, and the mysterious shooter who killed her husband and his father. East River Trust is a modern day police story with roots that go back to New York's lawless summer of 1977, when there was widespread looting and rioting during the historic two day city-wide blackout, and fear in the wake of the 'Son of Sam' serial murders. That was when the city stood at the precipice of financial default, and the officers of the NYPD did what they had to do to bring law and order back to the streets. There was bound to be some fallout for the next generation of cops to deal with ...
- | Author: D. S. Cooper
- | Publisher: D. S. Cooper
- | Publication Date: Jan 30, 2015
- | Number of Pages: 226 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0990974332
- | ISBN-13: 9780990974338
