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Berkowitz's path to writing fiction took thirty years to complete. Growing up in Brooklyn, Berkowitz dreamed of a career in medicine or law. But advertising beckoned. When he retired, he began to write. His first attempt at a novel garnered fifty rejections. A few were encouraging. So, he kept
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neighborhood with a bloody, sordid past. It is as much a major character in the series as
Jackson Steeg, an alcoholic ex-
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published in
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Top Ten Summer Read selection. He followed up with his second
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Ex-NYPD Homicide
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Jackson's brother. Controls the Hell's Kitchen Rackets,
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