Bøker av Stanley Cutler

The first book of The Rubin Family / Dave Levitan Series, in which Al Rubin establishes his power and influence.In 1929 Atlantic City, gangsters and politicians answer to Enoch 'Nucky' Johnson, the Czar of The Ritz. In Washington, J. Edgar Hoover sets out to end Nucky's reign. Nucky hatches a plan to neutralize Hoover with blackmail photos taken when the young FBI Director comes to an Atlantic City hotel for Decoration Day celebrations. Al Rubin, a studio photographer, is promised a lucrative lease on an entertainment pier to set up the shoot and snap the shots.Hoover discovers the plot and sets off in pursuit of Al, who tries to disappear in the sin city of the Jazz Age. More is at stake than the life of one thoughtful photographer. The American justice system's balance of power rides on the surprising and ingenious outcome of a fast-paced thriller.

In 1944, the US Army occupies Atlantic City's hotels as military barracks and uses the convention hall as a training base. When an Army recruit is murdered with a strange bullet, police detective Dave Levitan overcomes the interference of his crooked bosses, the incompetence of the military police, and the FBI's suspicions about his politics in order to investigate the senseless execution. He discovers a deep-cover Nazi spy and a team of German saboteurs who intend to destroy a vital link to the American soldiers fighting in France. Does Levitan have what it takes to stop the Germans from derailing the American war effort?The Subversive Detective is the first novel in the Detective Dave Levitan Series. A suspenseful, adventure and rich depiction of wartime American life, this remarkable story keeps readers entertained from the first page to the last.