City of Darkness Author:Al Lamanda Four years after the end of World War II, former Army Ranger Eli Rico is back to work as a Homicide Detective in the city of New York.Rico’s world is a bleak and dark place as he suffers from emotional scars from the war that influence his every day life and his job in homicide. — Plagued by nightmares, Rico has little in the way of friends... more » or a social life outside of his parents. The only woman in his life is a high class, East Side call girl named Mavis.When a millionaire businessman is murdered in the parking garage of his exclusive West Side apartment building, Rico is at a loss to explain certain things. The man wasn’t murdered for money and apparently had no enemies. A weapon wasn’t used to kill him and the cause of death is a broken neck.
Rico recognizes the technique as one taught to him in Ranger school called the Ranger Choke Hold, a fighting move taught nowhere else. A second victim and then a third is soon found, all murdered in the same fashion. It is apparent a serial killer is loose in New York City and is selecting victims seemingly at random. Rico must find a pattern if he is going to stop the murderer before another victim is killed.« less