New Bites: Under the Eye of God by Jerome Charyn

 

Under the Eye of God by Jerome Charyn comes out on Tuesday, October 30, 2012.




Isaac
Sidel is too popular to be America’s vice president. Once the New York
Police Department commissioner, he became the most beloved mayor in the
city’s history—famous for his refusal to surrender his Glock, and for
his habit of disappearing for months at a time to fight crime at street
level. So when baseball czar J. Michael Storm asks Sidel to join him on
the election’s Democratic ticket, the two wild men romp to an
unprecedented landslide. But as the president-elect’s mandate goes off
the rails—threatened by corruption, sex, and God knows what else—he
tires of being overshadowed by Sidel, and dispatches him to a place from
which tough politicians seldom return: Texas.

 

In
the Lone Star state, Sidel confronts rogue astrologers, accusations of
pedophilia, and a dimwitted assassin who doesn’t know when to take an
easy shot. If this Bronx bomber doesn’t watch his step, he risks making
vice-presidential history by getting killed on the job.