Telegraph Hill
Authors: John F. Nardizzi
Telegraph Hill
John
F. Nardizzi
© 2013, John F.Nardizzi
Library Of
Congress Control Number: 2014953986
ISBN: 978-1-941740-11-8
All rights reserved
and owned by John F. Nardizzi. No part of this book may be used, reprinted,
copied, sold, borrowed, bartered or loaned without the express permission of
the author. You have been warned. Ignore at your peril. Remember, Mr. Nardizzi
is a Boston based private investigator and mates with Patrick H. Moore and Max
Myers. You don’t want them to pay you a visit.
This is a work of
fiction. None of it is real. Names, characters, businesses places, events and
incidents are either a product of the author’s imagination, or used in a
fictitious manner based on his real life experiences. Any resemblance to actual
persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental, unless
otherwise stated.
In Telegraph Hill,
private detective Ray Infantino searches for a missing girl named Tania. The
case takes him to San Francisco, the city he abandoned years ago after his
fiance was murdered. Thrust into his old city haunts, Ray finds that Tania
may not be lost at all. Tania saw a murder; and a criminal gang, the Black Fist
Triad, wants to make sure she never sees anything again. Ray enlists help from
an old flame, Dominique, but now he has three women on his mind. Meeting
with various witnesses—ex-cops, prostitutes, skinheads—he relentlessly tracks
the evidence. But the hunt for Tania fires his obsession with avenging the
murder of his fiancé. When the triad retaliates, and blood begins to flow, Ray
must walk the knife edge between revenge and redemption on the streets of
San Francisco.
Acknowledgements
For Stacie,
who walked the city hills
and nudged
me to write it all down.
Dedicated
to the memory of Jean Roberts,
an Oakdale
teacher who believed
all that is
gold does not glitter.
About
John F. Nardizzi
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