The Sandy Hook Detective

A detective who never loses his man. A killer who fights back with a torpedo-boat and a head start.

Detective Dave Harding arrives at Sandy Hook on a routine assignment—bring in a murder suspect. He has the evidence. He has the authority. He has done this a hundred times before.

But Oblonsky is not a routine suspect.

The Russian artillery inventor has something no criminal has ever turned against Harding: a fully operational submarine torpedo-boat, loaded and ready to run. When Oblonsky drops through the iron hatch and vanishes beneath the black waters of New York Harbor, Harding finds himself clinging to the hull—then fighting a whirlpool—then rocking on a bell-buoy in the dark, watching his prisoner disappear.

Most men would call it a loss. Harding calls it unfinished.

The chase that follows pushes him from the harbor to Bedloe's Island, from the base of the Statue of Liberty to its highest gallery—two men grappling at impossible heights above the glittering sprawl of a city that never sleeps. Then into a sewer. Then into something far stranger waiting beneath the streets of New York.

Oblonsky is desperate, resourceful, and willing to do whatever it takes to stay free. Harding is relentless, battered, and absolutely refuses to go home empty-handed.

Can one detective bring down a man who kills with cannons—before Oblonsky vanishes for good?