City on Fire (Danny Ryan, #1)

by Don Winslow

Lesson: Don’t hold on to something’s going to pull you into a trap. If you’re going to let go, let go early. Better yet, don’t take the bait at all.

Rhode Island likes things difficult, hard to find. The other unofficial state motto—“If you were supposed to know, you’d know.”

the women bring out big boxes of the sweet little Italian cookies from Cantanella’s bakery in Knightsville. Only Cantanella’s cookies will do; someone was always designated to stop in Cranston on the way down from the city and pick up those cookies.

Need to ask Jesse if he's ever been there.

Her father, Alvin, never met a job he couldn’t lose,

“Danny’s like his old man,” Pasco says. “Stubborn. You heard about Irish Alzheimer’s? They forget everything but the grudges.”