Riley's Shadow

by Eric Weston

Nick Riley is paroled after fifteen years inside Missouri State Penitentiary for murder and moves to New York City making a living with legal investigations and serving subpoenas. A carryover as a savvy jailhouse lawyer and talented writ-writer. He wrote himself out of prison, not with writs but by writing memoirs of his prison life. His ambition is to become an investigative reporter given the chance. He travels the streets across New York's underbelly seeking redemption and shed the punk of his youth. "What do they say?”, Nick thinks. “It’s about how and where dead zones are created to the detriment of not just mankind but each one of us. And in his world he’s convinced few escape. The rest is an illusion that sucks you in until it’s too late. This is Nick's story of finding and losing love, murder, revenge, guilt and finally coming to terms with everything life has tossed at him. That best intentions can be deadly. A film noire thriller in the tradition of Elmore Leonard

280 pages, Paperback

Published June 20, 2018