It all begins on a perfect Manhattan morning: a gunman's bullets shatter the festival atmosphere of the world-famous Thanksgiving Day parade. Only one man in the crowd sees it happening but, thankfully for the unsuspecting throng gathered for the parade, he's the right man for the moment.
Meet Fritz Malone, New York's sharpest PI - an outsider with an insider's nose for City Hall politics, and a man who knows the rules just well enough to work around them. He's seen enough police work to know the 'the usual procedure', and this sure ain't it. Before the echo of gunshots has died down he's up to his neck in an insidious game involving cold-hearted criminals, crooked cops, and a long-buried secret that implicates the city's most powerful players.
Speak of the Devil is a blazingly paced thriller full of sharp dialogue, vivid characters, and shocking twists that propels classic crime-noir into the twenty-first century.
