Snowstorm in August by Marshall Karp

“Working here, you will be totally autonomous. It’s a revolutionary mandate for peacekeepers, but these are revolutionary times.” — Kaori Piper

NYPD Captain Danny Corcoran has always been dedicated to his sworn duty to protect the citizens of New York City, and he has excelled at it as well. So much so, he was one of only sixteen people recruited by NYPD Commissioner Trace Baker to serve on a highly elite strike force whose sole purpose was to prepare for the most unthinkable attacks on the city and design rapid response plans to counter any such attacks.

After things go spectacularly sideways for the team during an outing, Baker is forced out as commissioner, the team disbanded, and most of its members quit or take early retirement rather than accept their punishment-barely-in-disguise assignments from the new commissioner, a bureaucrat more concerned with PR than making tough calls.

Unfortunately for the citizens of New York City, the disbanding of the strike team, combined with a horrific event that occurs in the courtroom of Judge Harvey Solomon, Corcoran’s father-in-law, leaves the city wide open for Joaquín Alboroto, the most powerful drug lord on the planet, to unleash retribution for a loss he’s determined to make the entire city pay for.

The opening salvo, cropdusting Central Park with four thousand pounds of pure, uncut cocaine, leaves hundreds dead and causes ecological damage that will make the park a wasteland for decades to come. But Alboroto is just getting started.

Snowstorm in August, the newest release from international bestselling author Marshall Karp (NYPD Red series, Loman & Biggs series), follows Corcoran as he’s recruited by former commissioner Baker to a new, off-the-books team funded by four NYC-based billionaires who are willing to do whatever it takes to defend the city they hold dear for giving them the opportunities they each seized to ascend to the levels of wealth and power they now hold.

From the opening chapters with the NYPD strike force that will have you on the edge of your seat, to the globetrotting hunt for informants and information as Corcoran and crew race against the clock, to a wicked curveball Karp serves up near the ending, Snowstorm in August is a highly entertaining, fast-paced read that showcases Karp’s patented rich mix of character and action. And though the story could absolutely stand on its own as a one-off, the possibilities in play for this team of highly skilled, highly motivated, and highly funded professionals makes for fertile ground, and I for one certainly hope Karp returns to it for additional outings.

Snowstorm in August is available from Blackstone Publishing.

Marshall Karp is an international #1 bestselling author, TV and screenwriter, and playwright. He wrote the critically acclaimed Lomax and Biggs novels, featuring LAPD detectives Mike Lomax and Terry Biggs. Then, with James Patterson, he co-created and cowrote the NYPD Red series, featuring Detectives Zach Jordan and Kylie MacDonald, who are part of an elite squad sworn to “protect and serve New York’s rich and famous.” After six bestsellers, Marshall will carry the series forward on his own with NYPD Red 7. For over twenty years Marshall has worked closely with the international charity Vitamin Angels, providing tens of millions of mothers and children around the globe with lifesaving vitamins and nutrients. To learn more about Marshall, visit his website.