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  • THE BAD DIE YOUNG
    JEROME CHARYN
    A black defense attorney struggles with his obsession with the laziest whore in Harlem From his penthouse in posh Sugar Hill, Edward Parkchester rules over Manhattan. A silver-tongued defense attorney with a flourishing criminal sideline, he has fame, fortune, and the respect of uptown and downtown alike. But for the right working girl he will throw it all away.   He meets her ...

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  • PARADISE MAN
    JEROME CHARYN
    A stylish killer makes the mistake of befriending a god Though he doesn't know mink from sable, Sidney Holden is the most important employee at Aladdin Furs. He is a bumper, a well-dressed killer who collects the debts that cannot be paid, and Aladdin would be nothing without him. After all, fur is murder.   As Cuban refugees flood the United States, the New York criminal class...

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  • UNDER THE EYE OF GOD
    JEROME CHARYN
    After decades of madness in the Bronx, Isaac Sidel visits the craziest state in the country Isaac Sidel is too popular to be America's vice president. Once the New York Police Department commissioner, he became the most beloved mayor in the city's history—famous for his refusal to surrender his Glock, and for his habit of disappearing for months at a time to fight crime at stre...

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  • CITIZEN SIDEL
    JEROME CHARYN
    On the eve of a White House run, Sidel cleans up a mess in his old backyard Tired of being led by weaklings, the American people have fallen in love with J. Michael Storm and Isaac Sidel, the lawyer and the New York mayor who saved the country from the worst baseball strike in history. The Democratic National Convention is at Madison Square Garden, and when Storm is nominated f...

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  • EL BRONX
    JEROME CHARYN
    New York's children wage war on the city's rich, with Sidel as the referee In his years serving the people of New York, Isaac Sidel has often rescued the city from oblivion, but never has he faced anything as dangerous as the current baseball strike. The South Bronx, a wasteland of drugs, murder, and urban blight, is kept from sliding into utter chaos by Yankee Stadium's steady...

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  • THE EDUCATION OF PATRICK SILVER
    JEROME CHARYN
    When his best friend is killed, Isaac Sidel looks for revenge in the Bronx Though incorruptible—at least by New York Police Department standards—Detective Isaac Sidel knows that sometimes it's useful to look a little dirty. To gain access to the Bronx-based Guzmann crime syndicate, rumored to be building a human trafficking operation in Spanish Harlem, Sidel had himself kicked ...

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  • THE GOOD POLICEMAN
    JEROME CHARYN
    Police commissioner Isaac Sidel struggles to keep the New York Police Department from shattering When he was the police commissioner's first deputy, Isaac Sidel was one of the most powerful men in New York. But now that he's been promoted to the top job, there's nothing for Sidel to do but stare at his desk and feed the tapeworm that's attached to his stomach.   The Justice Dep...

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  • ELSINORE
    JEROME CHARYN
    A hitman comes out of retirement to rescue his kidnapped fiancée After he stops killing for money, Sidney Holden tries to live discreetly. He takes a Manhattan apartment in the Copenhagen building, a few blocks from where John Lennon died, and attempts to make a new life with his fiancée, Fay, former daughter-in-law of the district attorney. But as the quiet months pass, Fay gr...

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  • THE LORD OF SUGAR HILL
    JEROME CHARYN
    When a friend's crime spree threatens his legal empire, a powerful New York attorney must race to stop it—before at least one of them winds up dead Edward Parkchester, or Parky, "the black eagle," is the most successful criminal lawyer in town. He looms over Manhattan from his lair in Sugar Hill and has only one client, Byron Abando, a Mafia prince with a Phi Beta Kappa key. Bu...

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  • LITTLE ANGEL STREET
    JEROME CHARYN
    A month before he becomes New York City's mayor, Sidel confronts a gang of baseball-loving racists For the first time in his adult life, Isaac Sidel is no longer a cop. He has moved beyond the halls of One Police Plaza, and is about to take residence in Gracie Mansion, after winning New York's mayoral election in a landslide. Unable to bear his downtown apartment without his gi...

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  • MARILYN THE WILD
    JEROME CHARYN
    A secret tryst threatens to turn two cops against each other Isaac Sidel is a bear of a cop. Although his position as the commissioner's first deputy is largely political, Sidel has not forgotten how to work the New York City streets. To protect the East Side he has survived gunfights, broken arms, and once tore out a hoodlum's eyes. In his spare time he does favors for old fri...

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  • MARIA'S GIRLS
    JEROME CHARYN
    In debt to the mob, Sidel's sidekick brings hell to One Police Plaza For Detective Caroll Brent, special attention from Commissioner Sidel is not a good thing. Sidel's last pet detective, Manfred Coen, was killed by a gang of smugglers, and none of Sidel's favorites have had good luck since. But when Sidel taps Brent for an unusual assignment, the young cop can't refuse.   As p...

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  • MONTEZUMA'S MAN
    JEROME CHARYN
    The Justice Department hires Sidel's new chauffer to spy on the New York Police Department's commissioner Joey Barbarossa likes being a cop, because it makes dealing drugs easier. Any time a fellow pusher gives him trouble, Joey's detective badge and police-issue Glock have a way of making the problem disappear. He's also protected by his mentor, NYPD Commissioner Isaac Sidel, ...

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  • SECRET ISAAC
    JEROME CHARYN
    Disguised as a bum and living in a flophouse, Sidel tries to save a streetwalker The ragged old man has a tapeworm in his gut and a room at a nameless Whore's Row hotel, but to those in the know, he is one of the most powerful people in New York. Once the first deputy of the police commissioner, Isaac Sidel has lived in impoverished exile ever since the death of his detective p...

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  • AT THE SUDDEN DEATH CAFÉ
    JEROME CHARYN
    When his father dies, a young bumper inherits the bloody family business Holden is more than a bill collector. He's a killer. His father came to New York from Belgium to spend his life driving cars for the Aladdin Fur Company. But Holden has more ambition than his old man, and rises to the rank of bumper—a violent collector of debts that cannot be paid. But when his father dies...

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  • BLUE EYES
    JEROME CHARYN
    A cop and his disgraced mentor attempt to bust a white slavery ring Before Isaac Sidel adopts him, Manfred Coen is a mutt. A kid from the Bronx, he joins the police academy after his father's suicide leaves him directionless, and is trudging along like any other cadet when first deputy Sidel, the commissioner's right hand man, comes looking for a young cop with blue eyes to inf...

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  • THE SECRET LIFE OF EMILY DICKINSON
    JEROME CHARYN
    "In this brilliant and hilarious jailbreak of a novel, Charyn channels the genius poet and her great leaps of the imagination." —Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review) Jerome Charyn, "one of the most important writers in American literature" (Michael Chabon), continues his exploration of American history through fiction with The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson, hailed by prize-...

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