Old Broadbrim Among the Thugs of Harlem

A city crawling with cutthroats. A detective they all want dead.

Josiah Broadbrim is a man who sees everything.

One muggy night on Third Avenue, the Quaker detective spots two of New York's most dangerous criminals moving through the shadows—and follows them straight to the heart of a criminal empire buried in the tenements above the East River. It is the kind of discovery that changes everything.

But Broadbrim has barely made it home before someone tries to cave his skull in with a loaded club. The gang already knows he's watching. And they've sworn to finish him before he can finish them.

Armed with a tip from a street girl who owes him a debt, and tracking a bigamist murderer whose sins stretch from Boston to the Hudson, Broadbrim moves deeper into the underworld of Harlem's river district—where a ruthless gang of twenty-five men will kill without hesitation to protect their gold and their secrets.

Every lead he pulls tightens the noose around his own neck.

As the gang closes in from every direction and the bodies start to mount, Broadbrim refuses to flinch. He has faced worse men in worse places. But this gang is organized, violent, and desperate—and desperation makes men do things even the devil finds impressive.

Can the great Quaker detective land his catch before the net closes around him?