The rich, the poor, and the evil take on two New York cops in a gripping novel that rips the city wide open. THE KILLER. The leather-clad owner of a fancy townhouse that looks like a porn parlor, a very wealthy man with one devastating obsession. THE CAST. Brutal, terrifying murders of prostitutes who bear an uncanny resemblance to one another. THE COPS. Rosa Losada. straitlaced, by-the-book detective with her own private reason for entering the department. And Joe Dante, undercover detective, fresh from five years in the city's seamy drug culture, ready for the easy duty of life in a precinct. But when the precinct borders on Manhattan's Times Square, there's no such thing as easy duty-and this case is as hard as they come. MID-TOWN SOUTH. One hell of a terrific thriller, a new-fashioned police novel of the people drawn together by violence in the heart of New York City.