Swift, silent and deadly, soneone is killing the 87th Precincts finest . . . When Detective Reardon is found dead, motive is a big question mark. But when his partner becomes victim number two, it looks like open-and-shut grudge killings. That is until a third detective is murdered. With one meagre clue, Detective Steve Carella beginshis grim search for the killer, a searc Swift, silent and deadly, soneone is killing the 87th Precincts finest . . . When Detective Reardon is found dead, motive is a big question mark. But when his partner becomes victim number two, it looks like open-and-shut grudge killings. That is until a third detective is murdered. With one meagre clue, Detective Steve Carella beginshis grim search for the killer, a search that takes him into the citys underworld to a notorious brothel, the the apartment of a beutiful and dangerous widow and, finally, to a .45 automatic aimed straight at his head . . .