Third book in the Isaac Quarto

Washington Post 'A satiric hothouse of fast talk and low life'
Time Out 'He writes like greased lightning'
Chicago Tribune 'Jerome Charyn is a realist of the urban nightmare'

Patrick Silver is an Irishman in New York, an eccentric giant who never wears shoes - not even in winter. An ex-cop, he once served under disgraced First Deputy Isaac Sidel. But now his life has taken a peculiar turn.

Jerome Charyn was born in the Bronx in 1937, and is the author of more than thirty books, including Sizzling Chops & Devilish Spins, Metropolis: New York as Myth, Marketplace And Magical Land and The Black Swan. He has lived in Barcelona, Houston, Austin and San Francisco and now divides his time between New York and Paris, where he teaches film theory at the American University and writes regularly for Cahiers du Cinema.

The final part of the quartet

Isaac Sidel, the ex-First Deputy of New York City, is at his lowest ebb. He lives a lonely existence at a grimy hotel, lamenting the death of Blue Eyes Coen and the waywardness of his daughter, Marilyn the Wild.

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