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A fast-moving classic crime novel (John Sandford) crafted by the veteran screenwriter and showrunner for the acclaimed police procedural series Blue Bloods, Johnny Careless is Kevin Wade s razor-sharp debut novel. Police Chief Jeep Mullane has been bounced back home to Long Island s North Shore by a heartbreaking case that both earned him his NYPD detective s shield and burned him out of the Job. Now heading up a small local police department, he finds himself navigating the same geography he did growing up there as the son of an NYPD cop. Jeep is a have-not among the glittering haves, a sharp-witted, down-to-earth man in a territory defined and ruled by multigenerational wealth and power and the daunting tribal codes and customs that come with it. When the corpse of Jeep s childhood friend Johnny Chambliss–born into privilege and known as Johnny Careless for his reckless, golden-boy antics–surfaces in the Bayville waters, past collides with present, and Jeep is pulled into a treacherous web. He is challenged by Johnny s wealthy and secretive family and his beautiful, enigmatic ex-wife as he untangles a knotted mystery fraught with theft, corrupt local moguls, and decades-old secrets, all while grappling with his own deep-seated grief for his lost pal. A fast-paced story, Johnny Careless combines grit and wit in a way that conjures Donald Westlake or Robert Parker in full stride (Carl Hiassen).