New York City, 1980s. A city of power, politics… and people who vanish without a trace.Detectives Kim and Gage Madden have handled their share of ugly cases, but nothing like this. When an informant calls with information about a string of disappearances—homeless men, drifters, and members of the city's gay community—the Maddens rush to meet him.They arrive too late.Their informant is executed before he can speak, and a gunman tries to silence the detectives next. Hours later, that same gunman is found dead—his body mutilated, most of his internal organs missing.The trail leads to an unlikely pair at the center of New York's upstanding elite: the Winslow twins. Waldemar Winslow, a respected pharmacist with a spotless reputation. Wainright Winslow, a charismatic mayoral candidate—and a gay man suddenly placed under NYPD protection.One brother may be a target. The other may be a monster.As the Maddens dig deeper, the lines between victim and suspect begin to blur, exposing secrets powerful people will do anything to keep buried. In a city where reputation is everything, the detectives are about to discover how far the pillars of society will go to protect their own.And how many bodies they'll leave behind.
