Little Angel Street
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ISBN: 0892964626 / Publisher: Mysterious Pr, November 1994
Former NYPD Commissioner and eccentric Mayor-elect Isaac Sidel copes with the racist Knickerbocker Boys, who are murdering the city's homeless, and struggles to control the Police Department
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Isaac would be king. But the Pink Commish still has a month to go before he moves into the Mayor's mansion. Dressed in rags, he stays at the Seventh Avenue Armory under the alias of Geronimo Jones. Then an alternate Geronimo Jones turns up dead in Isaac's cot, leaving the Mayor-elect to ponder the message and the messenger.Soon other Geronimo Joneses, homeless all, are dying throughout the five boroughs. A racist gang called the Knickerbocker Boys claims responsibility, and Isaac traces the macabre murder spree from the Ali Baba sex palace in Times Square, to an effete architectural landmark preservationist, to the old Negro Baseball Leagues, all the way back to Little Angel Street in Odessa where Isaac's beloved Margaret Tolstoy once lived with a Romanian prince. All Isaac lacks is the truth.From Sweets, the new African-American police commissioner whose ancestors fought against the British in 1776, to Billy the Kid, the meddling Governor of the State of New York, Isaac Sidel is one pingpong-playing errant knight among an army of heroes, villains, and mercenaries roaming the kingdom of New York. And while Isaac struggles forth, his worst enemy eludes him: the dark angel who promises both answers and blood...
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