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Hamill, Denis

Contemporary

DELACORTE PRESS

Explosive, street-savvy, and authentic, acclaimed columnist Denis Hamill's novels are drawn in the gritty ink that can only flow from the pen of a native New Yorker...and a superbly talented writer.Now, blending sinuous prose with a hair-trigger delivery, Hamill etches a novel set in a mercenary New York—where friends become enemies, cops are corrupted, and some must die, all for the sake of Bobby Emmet was a desperate man, an honest New York City cop, framed for the murder of his fiancée, and given one last chance to save himself—by an unlikely benefactor. Bobby didn't murder his fiancee, Dorothea Dubrow, and then cremate the body—but he has an idea who is responsible. His murder trial interrupted his investigation of a police medical pension scam—and revealed how little he really knew about Dorothea. Now suddenly free, he is imprisoned in a web of corruption, lies, and the kind of secrets people kill for.Beginning his search for the truth at a shady security firm that employs able-bodied ex-cops, all of whom have mysteriously qualified for medical pensions—equal to a cool three-quarters of their salaries—he stumbles upon a startling discovery: the cremated remains that led to his conviction didn't really belong to Dorothea.Bobby has a few allies: his policeman brother, his hacker daughter, his flamboyantly unprincipled lawyer, a cop or two who stood by him through the trial. But the same forces that landed him in jail more than a year before are putting a smothering squeeze on him now—and all roads lead to a powerful politician who will let nothing get between himself and the governor's mansion.As the struggle to find the truth—and Dorothea—intensifies, Bobby begins to suspect that those around him are not as loyal as they appear. His liberty and very life depend on whether or not he can discover how high—and how near—the conspiracy goes before the trap closes on him.At once lyrical and riveting, Three Quarters crackles in its electric setting, reverberating with a "relentless energy" (Lawrence Block) fueled by Hamill's intimate knowledge of and intense passion for New York City.

3 Quarters

United States

Atria

Framed for the murder of his fiance+a7e, New York City cop Bobby Emmet pursues personal suspicions, only to discover that the woman he was to marry was not who she seemed and that high-level corruption is putting his life, as well as his freedom, at stake. Reprint.

Pocket Star

When firefighter Kevin Dempsey plunges into alcoholism after his wife leaves him, his brother searches for the missing woman, only to uncover a sinister web of secrets that threatens to destroy their family. Reprint.

House on Fire

Pocket

An American filmmaker visiting Dublin is robbed by a woman in a club and he pursues her, falling deeply in love in the process

Fork in the Road

Soon To Be A Major Motion Picture From Academy Award®Â­winning Director Barry Levinson 
 With this stunning literary portrait of ill-fated love played out amid the romantic squalor and violent underpinnings of contemporary Dublin and New York, Denis Hamill has crafted a work of greater resonance than anything he has yet written. 
 When Colin Coyne, a young American filmmaker seeking aesthetic inspiration in Ireland, catches a pickpocket red-handed in a hotel pub, all it takes is one look into her dazzling eyes for him to fall hard. Purely for the sake of research -- or so he tells himself -- he hurtles headlong into the bewitching world of Gina Furey, a stunningly beautiful, iron-willed denizen of Dublin's gypsy criminal underground. Before he knows what's happening, he finds himself a star player in a Pygmalion-like relationship rich with dramatic film possibilities: the earnest Yankee auteur woos and wins the dangerous gypsy thief. But the tenuous lines separating art and reality soon dissolve and the neatly linear screenplay unfolding inside Colin's head is eclipsed by the brutal chaos and unpredictability of true life. 
 By turns devastating and hopeful, bittersweet and hilarious, Fork in The Road is both a tragic love story and the riveting drama of one man's heartbreaking journey from exhilaration to desolation.

Atria Books

Throwing 7's

Acclaimed novelist and columnist Denis Hamill knows the streets that glisten at night and the ones that soak up the dark; he knows the boroughs, the bingo halls, the harbors, and the hangouts. Now, Hamill brings his urban savvy to this new Bobby Emmet mystery set inside a winner-take-all crapshoot, New York City-style.... Empire Island is not the home of liberty. It's no place for a prison. And no immigrants ever passed through its portals. Instead, the abandoned Coast Guard station on the windswept waters of New York harbor is ground zero for an idea whose time has come: casino gambling in the Big Apple. For Bobby, the fight over Empire Island gets personal when a young husband and wife mysteriously vanish from their downtown, rent-controlled Manhattan apartment. The police's main suspect -- landlord Jimmy Chung -- then disappears without a whimper, and Chung's attorney Izzy Gleason turns to Bobby for help. That's when Bobby starts doing what he does best -- turning over stones in a town full of millionaires and madmen, call girls and choirboys. What he finds astounds even him. The whole city is gambling crazy. From underground crap games to mob-backed bookies to the quaint business of church and synagogue Las Vegas nights, millions of dollars are changing hands illegally every day. And the big guys want in. Suddenly Bobby is playing with the heaviest hitters in New York, including the mayor, the state assembly speaker, and two dueling business tycoons: one who's into floating casinos, one who's into real estate, and both who are into a famous female tennis celebrity. As Bobby tries to figure out who is backstabbing who and why, he comes upon the beautiful, vengeance-crazed sister of one of the victims -- and the heart of the case, one that is inexplicably connected with New York City's last honest men: a rabbi, a minister, and a priest. No joke. Edgy, gritty, darkly comic, THROWING 7's is a street-smart novel of corruption, vendettas, and the unlikely bedfellows that ambition and money breed. A single father, a loyal brother, and a man with contacts on every level of the city, Bobby Emmet is playing the one game in town that isn't fixed: where the prize is the truth, and you gamble with your life.

With casino gambling set to arrive in Manhattan, the city is in an uproar, with various interested parties vying for control of the profits. Reprint.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Ten Spot: A Bobby Emmet Novel

Ten years after the mother of three up-and-coming hip-hop performers is murdered by a hit-and-run driver in Brooklyn, the youngest of her children hires former NYPD cop Bobby Emmett to discover the identity of the killer, in a case that brings him into the dangerous underworld of gansta rap. By the author of Sins of Two Fathers. 25,000 first printing.

It was 1969 on Hippie Hill in Brooklyn, and it seemed as if the world were coming to an end. LONG TIMEGONE 1969: Woodstock and the Moratorium, a man on the moon, Broadway Joe Namath, the Mets take the World Series. It was a year that saw goof balls, acid, thorazine, pot, Seconal, amphetamines, meth, and THC. It was the year the sixties ended, and it was the year in which Danny Cassidy saw his life shattered in a purple haze of drugs and violence. Did he kill the father of the girl of his teenage dreams? Or was he framed to cover up a far darker crime? Thirty-two years later, Danny, now a forty-nine-year-old divorced journalist, returns to his old neighborhood for his father's wake and one last attempt to exorcise the demons of that watershed year. One final chance as well to piece together the lost love of his life: Erika Malone, now a successful businesswoman whose father's unsolved murder remains the missing piece of the puzzle of both their lives. Denis Hamill's Fork in the Road was lauded by The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, Library Journal, The Irish Voice, and Publishers Weekly, which called it a "lively, sad, humorous tale." Frank McCourt said, "When you read Fork in the Road, make sure your chair is comfortable, because Denis Hamill hooks you and keeps you to the end." Now, in Long Time Gone, Denis Hamill evokes a lost New York and a dashed love affair, both dissolved into the jinglejangle mornings that came following.

Long Time Gone: A Novel

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3 Quarters

3 Quarters

House on Fire

Fork in the Road

Fork in the Road

Throwing 7's

Throwing 7's

Ten Spot: A Bobby Emmet Novel

Long Time Gone: A Novel