Hit and Run

Hit and Run by Newman, Christopher. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9780440222637.

Detective Joe Dante lives in a downtown loft and hangs with an uptown crowd. A cop who doesnt act, talk, or play like other cops, Dantes got Brooklyn-bred street smarts and a half-finished Ph.D. dissertation on his bookshelf. But when a man is struck down by a car outside a posh Manhattan hotel, Dante is plunged into a world like no other hes ever seen. The victim was a corporate executive. The killer was a hit-and-run driver. And when Dante and his team investigate the accident, they find a billion-dollar stock-market deal and the tracks of a Wall Street financier gone missing from his Sutton Place co-op. Now Dante is putting together the jagged pieces of a puzzle of sex, money, ambition, and high-tech fraud. Its a hunt that will take him from the pinnacle of high finance to Manhattans meanest streets. Because Detective Joe Dante is chasing a man who has a thirty-eight-million-dollar motive for murder--multiple murder--and the cunning to get away wit