Old Broadbrim on a Kidnapping Case

A kidnapped heiress. A shadowed city. And a detective who never lets the darkness win.

Old Broadbrim knows something is wrong the moment he spots the two men crossing Park Row—a drugged child in their arms, a bundle of secrets under their coats. He sends his best boy, Joe Cosgrove, to follow them into the Brooklyn night. He expects a lead. Instead, he gets silence.

Now Joe is missing. A four-year-old heiress worth a million dollars has vanished into the sprawling underworld of New York. And every clock in the city seems to have stopped at the wrong hour.

Old Broadbrim is not a man who panics. He reads the city the way other men read scripture—every shadow a clue, every silence a confession. When word comes from Montclair that little Amy Hetherington has been kidnapped by a gang that has already made twenty children disappear without a trace, he doesn't flinch.

He hunts.

But this case is bigger than a single stolen child. Behind the abduction lies a ruthlessly organized machine—part criminal empire, part shadow network—that preys on the innocent and the wealthy alike. Old Broadbrim suspects the whole rotten structure. Bringing it down means walking into it alone.

Can he find little Amy before her captors decide she's worth more dead than returned—and pull Joe Cosgrove out of the dark before the city swallows him whole?