Broken Force - Paperback

by John a. Bray (Author)

Dante's back but he's not an agent anymore. Working undercover as a confidential informant for the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration, he is sent to New York on loan to the New York City Police Department to help solve the theft of a million dollars worth of contraband drug evidence from the Department's Property Clerk's Office. Teamed with detectives from a highly sensitive and secret unit working directly for the Police Commissioner, Dante must face Mafia gangsters and crooked detectives bent on preventing him from uncovering the truth. Murder and mayhem dog his tracks while he pursues the deadly ring responsible for the daring and outlandish crime. To complicate his life, he falls in love with Clara, a beautiful but hard-boiled female detective, assigned to his back-up team. She must decide whether to become romantically involved with Dante while aware of his checkered past and lone-wolf personality. Dante's peril increases, placing the team with whom he works in danger, when an unknown insider within the department threatens to reveal his identity. Broken Force, the sequel to the novel, Blue Heat, is a no-holds-barred suspense thriller, which exposes the constant struggle to rid law enforcement of those whose greed undermines the effort to stem the flow of illicit narcotics into the nation's big cities. A page-turner from beginning to end, with unexpected twist and turns, Broken Force continues the exploits of Dante Falconieri, a once and future infiltrator of criminal conspiracies.

Author Biography

BIOGRAPHY After serving for seventeen years in the New York City Police Department I took early retirement with the rank of lieutenant in 1976. While in the Police Department, I acquired a Bachelor of Science degree from John Jay College and a Juris Doctor degree from Brooklyn Law School. After admission to the Bar, I worked for four years as a lieutenant prosecutor in the Department's internal disciplinary system. Upon leaving the NYPD, I practiced criminal defense law on Long Island and in New York City for 30 years. In 2004, I received a Master of Arts degree in Theology from the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception in Huntington, Long Island. Now fully retired, I live with my wife Vera in Williamsburg, VA. I am the Immediate Past President of the Chesapeake Bay Writers Club, a member of the Virginia Writers Club and a member of the International Thriller Writers. The author of four novels now published on Amazon Kindle by Endeavour Press of London, England with new titles and cover art: FLAGS OF OUR SONS, a historical novel of the Civil War era, (formerly THE BALLAD OF JOHNNY MADIGAN), BLUE HEAT, a police procedural/thriller, (formerly THE CONFIDENTIAL), and HOME FRONT, (formerly CODE NAME: CALEB), the sequel to FLAGS. My fourth novel, the sequel to BLUE HEAT is just released in e-format and print and is entitled BROKEN FORCE.I have had several short stories published in both print in LOST COAST REVIEW MAGAZINE and various e-zine formats. My first three novels are also available in print under their former titles.