Down by the River Where the Dead Men Go From CoCreator of Hit HBO Show ‘We Own This City’

<p><b>A gritty urban crime thriller from one of the award-winning writers of THE WIRE.</b><br><br>Like most of the trouble in Nick Stefanos' life, it started with a drink. <br><br>Lying in the darkness, drunk and immobile, Nick hears two men murder a terrified teenager. When he wakes in the morning, his memory is blurred. But the dead boy is still there, submerged in the river.<br><br>The police presume it's a gang-killing - no shortage of them in DC. But Nick isn't sure; gangs don't use silencers. Hit men do. Despite not having worked a PI case for a year and a half, Nick starts investigating, driven by an obsessive need for the truth. And with each clue he unearths, he's driven further into the darkest corners of the human soul.<br><br>The third novel in the Nick Stefanos series.</p>