Old Search and the Stranglers

A city that buries its secrets underground. A killer who bets on them staying there.

Old Search has seen the dark underbelly of New York in every shadow and sewer pipe. A veteran sleuth who has unraveled mysteries across two continents, he trusts his instincts above all else—and his instincts tell him that when a body disappears from a sewer in the dead of night, someone very powerful is watching very closely.

When Joe Phenix, a sewer rat who knows the underground passages of Gotham better than his own face, drags a sacked corpse from the muck and brings word to Old Search, the detective senses something enormous moving beneath the surface. The dead man wears the hands of a gentleman. The card clenched in his cold fist bears a name that belongs to another world entirely—South America, money, and violence.

Then the body vanishes. Then the living dead walk Broadway. Then a stranger arrives at a murdered millionaire's door, claiming half a fortune by blood.

As a web of false identities, stolen inheritances, and cold-blooded stranglers closes tighter around everyone Old Search loves, he confronts the darkest possibility: that the killers have been one step ahead from the beginning.

Can Old Search pull the truth from the shadows before the stranglers silence the last witness who can name them?