City on Fire (Danny Ryan, #1)

by Don Winslow

“You thinking what I’m thinking?” Pat asks. “Steve Giordo?” Steve “the Sniper” Giordo supposedly got his nickname because he’d been a marksman in the army, but Danny thinks it was more from the fact that a sniper rifle is his weapon of choice. Giordo is out of Hartford and takes jobs for both Boston and New York. Bad news on a couple of fronts—Giordo is very good, and Boston and New York would have to have given their nods for him to do a job in Providence. It’s a grim situation—Boston and New York backing the Morettis, Sal Antonucci and Steve Giordo out in front, and three of the guys who might have matched up against them are already dead. It was well planned, Danny thinks. So was Peter’s move to try to take the Ryan faction out of the lineup. Even while he was talking to me, his soldiers were out killing people. Planned, timed, and coordinated—nothing he could have done in the space of time since the “peace” meeting. The Morettis were going to move anyway, use the peace to lull us to sleep, and then hit us.