Exchange Alley - Softcover

Lieutenant Francis X. Byrne, a smart, ambitious homicide detective on the rise, lives in a rundown Hell's Kitchen apartment and knows far less about his own life than he believes. Struggling with his temper, his drinking, and his relationship with a woman who has him outclassed, Byrne is trying to solve the gruesome slaying of a Danish diplomat - and following the trail of Egil Ekdahl's short life into a world where beautiful people play the most dangerous of games. As Byrne gets closer to Ekdahl's true identity he collides with the one man he loathes more than any other human being: his own FBI agent brother. Tom Byrne has broken every rule in pursuit of a spy's Holy Grail: the KGB's top-secret file on Lee Harvey Oswald. It's a dossier that the FBI, the CIA, and even the Mafia desperately want...a file stained by blackmail, intimidation, and suicide.

The nude and sexually mutilated body of a Danish diplomat is found in upstate New York, When old-fashioned NYPD Detective Francis X. Byrne is brought into the case, he discovers the man was hiding a dangerous secret. Byrne must delve into the heart of contemporary urban darkness -- from the steamy sex clubs of Manhattan to the world of international espionage -- to uncover not only the killer, but the truth behind Lee Harvey Oswald and the KGB."Extraordinary and entertaining...Dark, ominous, and tragic, this violent, vivid glimpse into the underworlds of New York and Moscow grips the reader and never lets go". -- Tim Rice, lyricist of EvitaA seasoned journalist delivers a richly textured, riveting thriller that careens from the grisly murder of a diplomat to a 30-year-old international conspiracy.