City of the Dead
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I would like to express my gratitude to Dr. Yong-Myun Rho, Deputy Chief Medical Examiner, City of New York, who served so graciously as technical adviser on this book.
The wail of sirens. Police cars screaming northward. Ambulances following in hot pursuit. Up ahead, the gray spidery latticework of the Queensboro Bridge. Across the water, the candy-striped chimneys of the Con Ed Ravenswood plant belching smoke skyward. Just beyond that, the ugly sprawl of the Queens skyline. Barges and tugs push sluggishly upriver. Gulls wheel and shriek overhead.
A blur of motion as the patrol cars plunge into the 90th Street overpass, whoosh through the dark wet shade, then burst into the sunlight on the other side. Startled, drivers veer off to the side, scurrying to get out of the way.
A left at 96th Street and west to Madison. From there, north and on up into Harlem—108th, 116th—then left at 126th into the huddled, dingy street of squalid, front-stoop tenements. This is the 6th Homicide zone—an area famed for the highest murder rate in the city of New York. Traffic clogs the trash-lined street. Ragtag schoolchildren, satchels of books, greasy bags of lunch, squealing and darting round the stoops, ecstatic with the unexpected excitement.