Years after he shared a night of passion with beautiful Vivian Horstmann, Vietnam vet and Chicago cab driver Cooper MacLeish finds himself investigating her murder when the woman falls twenty-three stories to her death. Reprint.

A Long Cold Fall

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Reaves, Sam

Mystery

Avon/Books

Fear Will Do It

When his girlfriend Diana's former beau, Tommy Thorne, a small-time rocker with bad intentions, coerces Diana to help him sting a porno kingpin, Vietnam veteran Cooper MacLeish must step in to help. 

Accompanying a friend to a midnight rendezvous with a nervous informant, Chicago cabbie and sometime investigator Cooper MacLeish finds the contact's dead body instead, and uncovers a scandalous conspiracy involving dirty politics and the mob. Reprint.

Bury It Deep

The first book in the Cooper MacLeish series, Sam Reaves's debut novel recounts how MacLeish, a Vietnam veteran and Chicago taxi driver, hears of the apparent suicide of a former lover and, investigating, discovers not only that her missing son may be his but also that the suicide hypothesis  doesn't hold water.

Long Cold Fall

Putnam Adult

Vietnam vet and Chicago cabbie Cooper MacLeish is drawn, along with his girlfriend, into a deadly blackmail scheme against a brutal pornography czar, and the two find themselves the targets of a cold-blooded enforcer and his sadistic sidekick.

Literature & Fiction

United States

Chicago cabbie Cooper MacLeish and journalist Melvin Moreland confront the corrupt Chicago political machine as they investigate the machinations behind a local mayoral race, the Teamsters, organized crime, and a mysterious, incriminating tape.

G.P.Putnam's Sons

<p>Now working as a chauffeur for wealthy developer Regis Swanson, ex-cabbie and Vietnam vet Cooper MacLeish finds himself in the middle when Swanson's son is shot in a murky affair that draws attention from the DEA on one side and a couple of stone killers on the other. Once again it will be up to Cooper to fix things, at the risk of his life.</p>

Get What's Coming

A crime thriller set on the darker side of Chicago's mean streets.

Contemporary

Headline Book Publishing

Genre Fiction

Headline

<p>Dooley is not back even a day, and already he’s helped a gangland punk with a switchblade in his hand and rape on his mind to a deadly fall. And throughout this gritty, hard-boiled crime novel by a master of the new noir, fists work fast, the talk comes tough, and pages turn as swiftly as the rip of a hitman’s bullet. Frank Dooley used to be a Chicago cop, but eight years ago a case of homicide prompted him to take the law into his own hands—the victim was his wife—and then head south, to Mexico. Dooley’s return is met by everyone with surprise, and by a few with pleasure. Like his old partner Roy Ferguson. Roy has had some weighty problems of his own. His seven-year-old son has drowned, he’s gone through a nasty divorce, and a serious gambling habit has buried him deep in debt. Dangerously deep; for an over-ambitious loan shark with the mob, John Spanos, is taking the juice on Roy’s $15,000 score in favors. Dooley convinces Roy he should own up to what he’s done, set up a sting on Spanos, and maybe get back his integrity as a cop. It’s a good plan, but it goes very bad, and Dooley soon finds himself caught perilously between the police force he deserted on one side and the Outfit Roy betrayed on the other. This is a tough-edged urban novel of crime and suspense. “The hard-boiled fraternity has a new member, and he’s a good one.”—Booklist “Gritty, fast-paced, satisfying.”—Publishers Weekly</p>

Dooley's Back: A Novel of Crime (Otto Penzler Books)

Carroll&Graf

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A Long Cold Fall

Fear Will Do It

Bury It Deep

Long Cold Fall

Fear Will Do It

Bury It Deep

Get What's Coming

Get What's Coming

Get What's Coming

Dooley's Back: A Novel of Crime (Otto Penzler Books)