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William J. Caunitz Books In Order

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. One Police Plaza (1984)
  2. Suspects (1987)
  3. Black Sand (1988)
  4. Exceptional Clearance (1991)
  5. Cleopatra Gold (1993)
  6. Pigtown (1995)
  7. Chains of Command (1999)

Standalone Novels Book Covers

William J. Caunitz Books Overview

One Police Plaza

A nude corpse in a bathtub. Name: Sara Eisinger. Occupation: travel agent. For Detective Lt. Dan Malone of New York’s Fifth Precinct, it’s all in a day’s work. Until a little gold key in Sara’s possession leads him to an after hours sex club. Until two phone numbers in her address book connect to the CIA. Until he’s neck deep in a mystery involving the Israel Mossad, Muslim extremists, the U.S. Army, and the NYPD. Then, from the top, heat comes down hard on Malone to get off the case. But it’s already too late Malone is obsessed. He puts everything on the line his job, his love, his life as he unearths a terrifying conspiracy in the core of the department…
a time bomb of double deals and killer cops that could rip apart the NYPD and the city it’s sworn to protect.

Suspects

Brooklyn. Early June. A man strolls into a candy store, pulls out a sawed off shotgun, and blows away two people: owner Yetta Zimmerman and her customer, NYPD Lt. Joe Gallagher. Suddenly it is a very hot summer for Detective Lt. Tony Scanlon. For this is just the first in a series of brutal, inexplicable hits that lead Scanlon on a journey into the nightmare universe that cops and criminals cohabit…
and deep into the private tragedies of his own life…
then deeper still into his other life, the job, where he uncovers a frightening hidden world riddled with Suspects in blue. But it all begins with the opening double murder and a moment of shock when Scanlon opens that dead lieutenant’s locker…
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Black Sand

A brutal machine gun massacre at a seaside resort kicks off a deadly hunt for a priceless ancient artifact. And while NYPD detective Teddy Lucas chases searing love and Greek cop Andreas Vassos pursues an obsessive passion, the toughest case of their careers could get them slammed into a New York City sidewalk.

Exceptional Clearance

Detective Lieutenant John Vinda is willing to break the law to break his latest case when a ruthless killer begins stalking young women on the streets of New York. By the author of One Police Plaza. K.

Cleopatra Gold

In attempting to break the Cleopatra Syndicate hero*in network that has already resulted in the brutal deaths of three agents, nightclub singer and undercover cop Alejandro Monahan hopes to avenge his father’s death. NYT. PW.

Pigtown

Detective Lieutenant, Matt Stuart, third generation New York cop, is precinct head in Pigtown, an old wiseguy neighborhood where the name remains but the pig farms are gone in a forgotten section of Brooklyn. Which is where Beansy Rutolo is found inside a refrigerator with his brains blown out. Nobody cares about mob hits anymore, but Matt owes one to Beansy due to an ancient favor on Beansy’s part to Matt’s father. Matt’s investigation of the hit on Beansy rattles the top brass in the Big Building, resulting in Matt taking chances with his career and his life. Pigtown is as stark as today’s newspaper, as real as New York itself, and the best book that William Caunitz has ever written.

Chains of Command

An electrifying new thriller from The New York Times bestselling author, one of the originators of the big city police novelWilliam J. Caunitz, the author of such classics as One Police Plaza and Exceptional Clearance, is back in bestselling form with his latest New York City cop thriller, Chains of Command. When a young police officer is shot and killed in his girlfriend’s apartment in Washington Heights, investigators suspect that he had been taking money from the Dominican drug gangs that rule the neighborhood. An ambitious female deputy police commissioner and a daring detective lieutenant go up against the forces of greed, rivalry, and long buried secrets to protect the ones they love and solve the crime of their careers. These two cops are the best of the true blue, brave, and loyal. Caunitz’s first four novels were New York Times bestsellers Cleopatra Gold was a New York Times Notable Book in 1993’He knows more about cops and what moves them than Joseph Wambaugh or George V. Higgins. Its special strength is its carefully exacting depiction of what the working life of a big city police department really is like.’ The New York Times Book Review on One Police Plaza

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