Machine City

By Jack Howland

"The Police Procedural has three supremos: Ed McBain, Joseph Wambaugh, and David Simon with Homicide. Clear a space on the shelf beside these masters. Jack Howland has written a superb novel that sits right alongside those maestros."
Ken Bruen, Shamus-Award-winning author of The Guards and Killing the Tinkers.

Just before Christmas, police answer a murder call from the Connolly Village projects, a.k.a. "Conville." The victim is unidentifiable, naked, bound, and set afire.

Working in his breakneck style, Detective Tom Rinne has a witness and suspect before anyone expects. When he identifies the victim, however, he reopens the case of a beautiful girl who vanished last summer - a girl with connections to the most powerful men in the city.

As Rinne dives back into the case, it's only a minor political firestorm. When a young black suspect is shot, however, it spirals into a race war. Rinne finds himself first a scapegoat, then a suspect, then a fugitive. One woman can save him or sell him down the river - the only woman he ever loved. One simple device - the girl's phone - can unravel the truth and expose secrets Rinne himself might prefer to keep hidden.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1976379881
• ISBN13: 9781976379888
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 369 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"