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Sleepless City

A Nick Ryan Novel

Nick Ryan

By Coleman, Reed Farrel

Read by Giles, Peter

11.38 hrs • 9 CDs • Unabridged

Genre: FICTION  /  MYSTERY, THRILLERS & SUSPENSE  /  GENERAL & LITERARY FICTION

Release Date: 08/01/2023

© 2023 by Blackstone

ISBN No : 9781982642990

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“A tour-de-force! The pace is relentless, the plot smart, his new lead character, Nick Ryan, is a hero for the times…Reed is a brilliant storyteller.” --Louise Penny, #1 New York Times bestselling author

When you're in trouble, you call 911.

When cops are in trouble, they call Nick Ryan.

Every cop in the city knows his name, but no one says it out loud. In fact, they don't talk about him at all. 

He doesn't wear a uniform, but he is the most powerful cop in New York.

Nick Ryan can find a criminal who's vanished. Or he can make a key witness disappear.

He has cars, safe houses, money, and weapons hidden all over the city.

He's the mayor's private cop, the fixer, the first call when the men and women who protect and serve are in trouble and need protection themselves.

With conflicted loyalties and a divided soul, he's a veteran cop still fighting his own private war. He's a soldier of the streets with his own personal code. 

But what happens when the man who knows all the city's secrets becomes a threat to both sides of the law?

"Sleepless City is magnificent in every way. A book you can’t put down, won’t forget, and must not miss!" --Andrew Child, #1 bestselling co-author of the Jack Reacher novels

"One of the coolest characters I have ever read and the start of a remarkable new crime series. If Steve McQueen made Bullitt in 2023 it would be just like this." --Don Winslow, #1 internationally bestselling author

"Gripping, poetic, absolutely riveting. Sleepless City proves Reed Farrel Coleman is one of our most powerful voices in crime fiction. His remarkable voice and brilliant storytelling, combined with his taut poetic style and powerful understanding of the human condition, makes his novels heartbreakingly immersive. What does it mean to do the right thing, and what are the consequences? And how do you survive a rigged system? Sleepless City is a face-paced battle between honor and necessity, and will forever change the way you look at justice." --Hank Phillippi Ryan, USA Today bestselling author

"By turns, thrilling, threatening, and tender, Sleepless City reminds us why Reed Farrel Coleman is one of the most admired and respected crime-and-mystery writers of his generation. In Nick Ryan, he introduces us to a complex crime fighter with a tarnished badge who patrols the dark and glorious streets of New York, dispensing his brand of justice in a manner that forces us to ask: Is he on our side? Coleman’s compelling novel is both classic noir and a reflection of these treacherous modern times -- and one worthy of his award-winning talents." --Jim Fusilli, author of Narrows Gate and The Mayor of Polk Street

"Nick Ryan is a great character. Sleepless City grabbed me right away. The characters and action jumped off the page." --Jim Born, New York Times bestselling author

"Sleepless City is urban noir at its finest -- lyrical prose written with a straight razor. Nick Ryan is a compelling protagonist who’ll stride into your soul and never leave." --Twist Phelan, Thriller Award-winning author

"New York City is about to explode, and the only cop who can stop it is Reed Farrel Coleman’s Nick Ryan. Aptly titled, Sleepless City, is a page-turning pressure cooker of a thriller brimming with authenticity and guaranteed to deprive you of sleep because you can’t put it down. One hell of a read. Coleman has never been better." --David Freed, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author of the Cordell Logan series

"Sleepless City presents Nick Ryan, a cool, complex and complicated hero living on the knife’s edge of morality in a New York City just as noir as you’d expect from master craftsman Reed Farrel Coleman. Meet Nick and enjoy the wild ride." --James Benn, author of the Billy Boyle Mysteries

"Reed Farrel Coleman is a master of urban noir. His mastery is again on display in Sleepless City, where cop-extraordinaire Nick Ryan makes hard-boiled cool." --Brian Silverman, author of Freedom Drop

"[In Sleepless City] Reed Farrel Coleman writes about raw emotion, raw violence, raw sex and power, and he exposes the underside of New York City. I loved it!" --Don Bruns, USA Today bestselling author

"Part twisty noir, part spy thriller, Sleepless City is an incendiary device from the first page to the last. All hail Reed Farrel Coleman. The master has spoken." --Russ Colchamiro, author of the Angela Hardwicke mystery series

"Reed Farrel Coleman captures the still mean streets of New York City better than anyone in a generation and creates the best-written action scenes this side of Jack Reacher." --Michael Sears, Shamus Award-winning author of Tower of Babel

"Once again, Reed Farrel Coleman takes you on a rollercoaster ride in Sleepless City. Imprinting his tattoo of ‘noir poetry’ on hero/anti-hero Nick Ryan, Reed knocks it out of the park with edge-of-your-seat suspense from first paragraph to last. Also, how can you not love a Brooklyn author who writes Totonno’s and Spumoni Gardens into his story? Five stars -- no questions asked." --Elizabeth Crowens, editor of New York: Give Me Your Best or Worst

"Reed Farrel Coleman is one of the all-time greats. No one else writes so beautifully about complex characters who never stop wrestling with their demons. Sleepless City is an absolute winner." --Hilary Davidson, author of Her Last Breath

"No one writes New York better than Reed Farrel Coleman, and with Sleepless City, he’s at the top of his game. The writing is delicious, the plot breakneck, and the characters larger than life. An absolute thrill ride." --Jess Lourey, Edgar Award-nominated author of The Quarry Girls

"A razor-sharp NYC thriller from a writer who knows the territory. Nick Ryan is a new breed of hero, working the dark and deadly of a city on edge." --Wallace Stroby, author of Heaven’s A Lie

"In Nick Ryan, Coleman gives us his most hardboiled character yet -- and one of his most clear-eyed and compassionate. Coleman’s prose, as always, is musical and taut, his plot complex and satisfying, and there’s never a moment violence, either the opportunity for it, or the necessity of it, is approached without ambivalence. Hardboiled literature is about people being forced to make impossible choices. Coleman and Ryan acquit themselves with honor." --S. J. Rozan, bestselling author of Family Business

"From the cemeteries and pizza joints to the synagogues and housing projects, Sleepless City is New York to the bone. The atmosphere bleeds through the page. Nick Ryan is a hell of a character, an embattled and resilient guide. Coleman’s prose hits like a wrecking ball, and this is his best and gutsiest book yet. A marvel of pacing and tension. I only wish Sidney Lumet were still around to adapt it.’" --William Boyle, author of Shoot The Moonlight Out and Gravesend

"Nick Ryan is a cop who embodies the city in all its darkness and complexity. He’s equal parts Serpico and Batman…a compelling character who grabs you and won’t let you go in this masterpiece of urban noir." --Ace Atkins, New York Times bestselling author of The Heathens and Robert B. Parker’s Bye Bye Baby

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