Blind Pig

A taut police thriller featuring detective 'Fang' Mulheisen-from a writer hailed as 'the best-kept secret of hard-boiled crime fiction connoisseurs' (The New York Times Book Review). When a cop guns down an intruder during a break-in, it seems like another case of a bad guy meeting a bad end until the owner of the garage being burgled is revealed to be Jerry Vanni, a young man whose trucking empire is branching out into juke boxes and vending machines. Detroit's Det. Sgt. 'Fang' Mulheisen knows that Vanni's businesses are normally controlled by the mob and when a pair of gunmen walks into a bar and fills one of Vanni's jukes with lead, Mulheisen is sure there's more trouble on the way. His investigation leads him into an ever-growing criminal enterprise involving gun-smuggling Cubans, a million-dollar heist, and a gorgeous woman mixed up with both. It's the kind of trouble that can get a good cop killed . . . 'Few color the police procedural with such bluesy riffs or make it jump the way Jackson does.' Detroit Free Press