Only Child: A Burke Novel (Burke Novels) Book

After years on the run, Burke is desperate to return to his native New York, the only way he can reconnect with his outlaw â??family.â? But to survive in their part of the City, where reputation is everything, Burke must take major risks to reestablish his presence. So when a Mafia man contacts him about the murder-as-message of his sixteen-year-old daughterâ??the offspring of what he calls an â??outside the tribeâ? affair that he must keep secret at all costsâ??Burkeâ??s depleted bankroll persuades him to step out of the shadows and do something he hasnâ??t done in years . . . actually investigate a crime.

Burke needs cover to penetrate the teenage subculture of the Long Island town where the girl lived and died, so he puts together a crew of gifted role-players, including a pair of lesbian â??power exchangersâ? who market their special brand of sex on the Internet. When Burke himself surfaces as a casting director, seeking tomorrowâ??s stars for a movie to be shot on location, the investigation quickly spins off into uncharted depths. What he discovers is a new kind of filmmaking, a new kind of violence, and a predator unlike any heâ??s ever known. When they meet head-on over a brutal work of cinéma vérité, only one of them will survive the final cut.