Fiction. Alex Ramsey lost his son two years before; then his wife took to gin, and he lost his job with the Bronx police force. Now he's working as a security guard for a burgeoning high-rise apartment complex, figuring the worst he'll encounter will be marital disputes, drunks, and an occasional teenage ruffian. But then the body of a boy just the age of his son would have been is found beaten, raped and hung by the river flowing through the grounds.

Author City: FORT LEE, NJ USA

Philip Cioffari is the author of three books of fiction: the novels JESUSVILLE and the CATHOLIC BOYS, and the short story collection A HISTORY OF THINGS LOST OR BROKEN, which won the Tartt Fiction Prize and the D. H. Lawrence award for fiction. He has written and directed for Off- and Off-Off Broadway. His independent feature film, which he wrote and directed, Love in the Age of Dion, has won numerous awards, including Best Feature Film at the Long Island International Film Expo, and Best Director at the New York Independent Film & Video Festival.

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