Sea of Green Author:Thomas Adcock Police Detective Neil "Hock" Hockaday has just gone through a divorce, which takes him from the suburbs back to his childhood neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen. Only now it's called "Clinton," and it bears little resemblance to the place where he used to shine shoes for spare change ... Now he spends his time on th... more »e SCUM Patrol -- Street Crimes Unit Manhattan.
No sooner is he assigned to investigate death threats against a popular Harlem minister than a series of killings takes place in Hell's Kitchen. The connections between the two cases soon become apparent. Hock's work takes him into a world polarized between two factions -- one led by a real estate developer with designs on the presidency, the other by the "little " people of Hell's Kitchen he seeks to displace.« less