But first it rewinds, to introduce the forlorn 16-year-old university student Paul Fleischer, who’s still mourning the suicide of his father when he falls in love - or something like it - with his suave classmate Julian Fromme. Set in Watergate-era Pittsburgh, Nemerever’s “These Violent Delights” opens with a brief and utterly disturbing prologue that promises an act of violence later in this macabre story. To make matters worse, Kerasha’s kleptomaniacal habits threaten to cause her even more trouble, and Henry, straddled with some kind of debt, is keeping company with a nogoodnik murderer named Lipz. There’s also a mysterious blue Chevy Impala parked on their street a bit too often. Some of the bank accounts Shecky relies on have closed for unknown reasons. or pay college tuitions in cash without raising eyebrows. Along with Kerasha’s cousin Henry, they form a family business whose services include helping people avoid unnecessary entanglements with the I.R.S. His ringleader here is Shecky Keenan, whose beloved niece Kerasha is newly out on parole.
To tell us how he ended up that way, Selfon’s thriller takes us back in time to describe a rogues’ gallery of ex-cons and petty crooks involved in or circling around a money-laundering operation in Bushwick, Brooklyn.Īs a former chief investigative analyst for the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office, Selfon clearly knows his way around a criminal conspiracy. By the end of the first chapter of “The Nightworkers,” a painter and fentanyl dealer named Emil Scott is dead.
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