Dermott McBride was a James Joyce scholar who went on to become overlord of every pimp in Manhattan. Isaac Sidel wanted to break his toes for scarring young prostitute Annie Powell, but first he had to sort out the small matter of a corrupt New York police commissioner.

Tie into the release of the new Isaac Sidel hardcover, Montezuma's Man, with the novel that introduces the idiosyncratic New York City police commissioner. Sidel's protege, Manfred Shotgun Coen, is unleashed on a Peruvian underworld leader when the daughter of a prominent Manhattanite disappears.

Montezuma's man is Joe Barbarossa, a drug-dealing half-breed police detective. Now he's been commandeered by Commissioner Isaac Side to help wreak havoc on New York's gangland. Their two-man war on the city's Mafia leads them on a twisted, hallucinogenic trail that will eventually take them to Sicily itself.

Before New York City Commissioner Isaac Sidel is crowned mayor, he goes underground as Geronimo Jones. Then Geronimo Joneses start turning up dead all over town, and a racist gang called the Knickerbocker Boys claims responsibility. Isaac trace the Boys all the way to Odessa's Little Angel Street--and a beautiful woman named Margaret Tolstoy.

Police Commissioner Isaac Sidel is out to rid the New York City school system of the insidious influences of two flamboyant and sinister bureaucrats who starve the children for books and drain lunch money into their own pockets. Ties into the Fox TV series The Good Policeman, based on the Isaac Sidel novels.

Sent on a cross-country lecture tour after capturing the FBI's most wanted criminal, New York City Police Commissioner Isaac Sidel returns to the city and finds himself battling criminals, the establishment, and the Christy Mathewson Club