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    The Lord of Sugar Hill
    The Lord of Sugar Hill
    The Lord of Sugar Hill
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    The Lord of Sugar Hill

    By Jerome Charyn

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    When a friend’s crime spree threatens his legal empire, a powerful New York attorney must race to stop it—before at least one of them winds up dead
    Edward Parkchester, or Parky, “the black eagle,” is the most successful criminal lawyer in town. He looms over Manhattan from his lair in Sugar Hill and has only one client, Byron Abando, a Mafia prince with a Phi Beta Kappa key. But the black eagle suddenly finds his empire in ruins. Freeman Faulks, a detective who helped steer Parky out of a troubled childhood at the Abraham Lincoln projects, has gone on a crime spree, sticking up a bunch of liquor stores. Parky has to find Freeman, but first he will have to match wits with his own boss, Byron Abando, and with Sandra Sutpen, the high priestess of federal prosecutors—who likes to toss her underpants at enemies and the men she loves.  There’s something sinister behind Faulks’s crime spree, and if Parky doesn’t move fast enough, he might not make it out of Manhattan alive.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMysteriousPress.com Open Road
    Release dateSep 25, 2012
    ISBN9781453277041
    The Lord of Sugar Hill
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    Jerome Charyn

    Jerome Charyn (b. 1937) is the critically acclaimed author of nearly fifty books. Born in the Bronx, he attended Columbia College. After graduating, he took a job as a playground director and wrote in his spare time, producing his first novel, a Lower East Side fairytale called Once Upon a Droshky, in 1964. In 1974, Charyn published Blue Eyes, his first Isaac Sidel mystery. This first in the so-called Sidel quartet introduced the eccentric, near-mythic Sidel, and his bizarre cast of sidekicks. Although he completed the quartet with Secret Isaac (1978), Charyn followed the character through Under the Eye of God. Charyn, who divides his time between New York and Paris, is also accomplished at table tennis, and once ranked amongst France’s top 10 percent of ping-pong players.

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      The Lord of Sugar Hill

      Jerome Charyn

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      HE WAS THE BLACK EAGLE, not because of his prowess in the courtroom, but because he had his own lair on Sugar Hill, overlooking the ruins of Harlem. He could have moved to Park Avenue with his former fiancée, Tatiana Klein, but he didn’t want to bunk down with all the honky rednecks. He had an office on Madison, and was seldom there. His junior partner, Harris Teitelbaum, squatted in the office when he wasn’t out in the field with mid-level wise guys or renegade millionaires.

      He himself had only one client, Byron Abando, Mafia prince with a Phi Beta Kappa key who kept out of jail with the help of Edward Parkchester, aka Parky, the eagle of Harlem Heights.

       The Feds couldn’t prosecute Byron while Parky was around. The eagle destroyed whatever witnesses the Justice Department produced, and it was hard to frame this counselor who’d grown up in the Abraham Lincoln projects and was rescued from oblivion by a black detective at the 25th Precinct, Freeman Faulks. Faulks let Parky hang

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