The first in the "beautifully written" Edgar-winning series featuring an NYPD detective working the mean streets of Manhattan's West Side (The Washington Post).   Detective Neil Hockaday, a son of Hell's Kitchen who grew up to join the NYPD, had a promising meeting scheduled with a snitch--until his informant turned up dead. Meanwhile, a prominent Harlem preacher with a lot of followers, and friends in high places, has been receiving death threats--and Hock's assigned to keep Father Love alive and find out who's after him.   But Hock's harrowing work life hits close to home when he discovers a dead body in his own bathtub and must untangle whether--and how--all these events are connected . . .   "A satisfying narrative . . . Adcock's picture of the Big Apple is not pretty, but it is gripping and effective." --Publishers Weekly