Robert Daley, Author . Harcourt/Penzler $23 (386p) ISBN 978-0-15-101244-2
Former NYPD deputy commissioner Daley, perhaps best known for his nonfiction account of police corruption, Prince of the City
, is unlikely to win many new fans with this cliché-ridden tale, which ranks several notches below Year of the...
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Robert Daley, Author . Harcourt/Penzler $24 (360p) ISBN 978-0-15-101229-9
The 17th novel from former NYPD deputy commissioner Daley falls short of his previous work (Year of the Dragon
and the excellent nonfiction account Prince of the City
). His new hero, Vince Conte, is marking time as a PI for a security firm after...
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Robert Daley, Author Grand Central Publishing $5.99 (480p) ISBN 978-0-446-36219-1
NYPD deputy chief Ray Douglas is sent to Bogota to ``liaise'' with the DEA; there, he and New York newspaper reporter Jane Fox become lovers. ``Never less than informative and fascinating, often exciting and always ringing true, Daley's latest crime
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Robert Daley, Author Vision $5.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-446-60083-5
Despite sharply written scenes and dialogue, this combination of a police procedural and a courtroom drama about a murder suspect who shoots five cops lacks depth and closure. (Mar.)
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Robert Daley, Author Villard Books $25.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-375-50178-4
An American pilot shot down over central France during WWII falls in love with the Jewish ward of a pastor who runs an underground resistance network in this suspenseful and moving novel based on the true story of pastor Andr Trocm of Le Chambon...
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Robert Daley, Author Pocket Books $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-61895-7
First published in 1977, Daley's exuberant book on treasure hunter Mel Fisher is now updated to include the culmination of Fisher's 21-year search: his discovery last July of a long-lost Spanish galleon containing a fortune in gold, silver and...
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Robert Daley, Author Simon & Schuster $18.45 (475p) ISBN 978-0-671-61883-4
This latest novel by the author of Prince of the City may end by focusing on the controversy over a green Deputy Commissioner who commits accidental homicide, but it is really about the fascinating distribution and realignment of power at the top of
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Robert Daley, Author Little Brown and Company $19.95 (450p) ISBN 978-0-316-17184-7
Opening with the bust of a coke warehouse in New York City, Daley ( Year of the Dragon ; Prince of the City ) grabs our attention and doesn't let go until the last line. Deputy Chief Ray Douglas, 44 and recently widowed, an NYPD star who loves his...
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Robert Daley, Author Little Brown and Company $24.95 (488p) ISBN 978-0-316-17185-4
Freely mixing travelogue, history and offhand cultural commentary, Daley's serendipitous journey appraises France's soul. Whether he is expressing consternation at Avignon's immense Palace of the Popes, monument to medieval extravagance, or tracking
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Robert Daley, Author Little Brown and Company $21.95 (391p) ISBN 978-0-316-17196-0
Daley is not at his best in this sketchy combination of a police procedural and a courtroom drama. A minor hoodlum named Lionel Epps shoots five cops during a botched arrest in Harlem. For political reasons, responsibility for the prosecution falls...
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Robert Daley, Author Little Brown and Company $22.95 (409p) ISBN 978-0-316-17206-6
The murder of a top cop and the political infighting that ensues form the focus of Daley's first-rate new thriller. When New York City Police Commissioner Harry Chapman is shot while jogging on Manhattan's Upper West Side, his former patrol-car...
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Robert Daley, Author Warner Books $24 (0p) ISBN 978-0-446-52063-8
Returning to the southern French setting of his novel The Dangerous Edge (1983), Daley (Wall of Brass) crafts a crisp and intricate thriller about two detectives and two police systems that, for all its high-spirited writing, turns seriously dark at
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