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Detective Paddy Durr is BURNT TO A CRISP. He just can’t catch a break. His beloved wife, Mairead, is dying. A vindictive police department psychiatrist is out to take his guns away for spurning her advances. With the corrupt mayor and his scheming wife are her allies, even the big Chiefs in the NYPD can’t protect him anymore. On top of all this, he just caught a disturbing triple homicide. Blocked from getting to the truth by a local drug lord who put a gag order on the neighborhood, Durr’s options are few and the clock is ticking. He can feel his life crumbling with each passing second. Even with little hope of success, he fights on. Durr is left to pray for a miracle from a God he is sure has forsaken him.

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Michael O’Keefe’s novel,

A RECKONING IN BROOKLYN

A Reckoning in Brooklyn

Bushwick, Brooklyn, in the 1970s, is a cesspool of drugs, violence, and depravity. Every aspect of life in the blighted neighborhood has been contaminated by the Mafia.

Butchie Bucciogrosso is an Italian cop who detests the Mob. A survivor of the streets, he returns from Vietnam to discover Bushwick in ruins. His partner, Fast Eddie Curran, had to kill his way out of war-torn Belfast. Together, they are the only cops with the courage to take on the gangsters.

Only the Mafia, their own dirty department, and a corrupt federal government stand in their way. With their families in the cross-hairs, can they destroy the Mob’s criminal empire before they are killed? Can they outwit a crooked justice system before they are framed and imprisoned?

The clock is ticking with Bushwick’s survival in the balance. A Reckoning in Brooklyn is the new historical crime thriller from Detective Michael O’Keefe.

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A murder case becomes the springboard for a striking tale of a man coming to terms with his chaotic past.

SHOT TO PIECES

Is the story of NYPD 1 st Grade Detective Padraig Joseph Durr. Durr is a brilliant detective, but he is his own worst enemy. Durr catches a brutal drug-related street assassination in Brooklyn. There are overtones of a possible gang war. The Police Department and the city government would like to ignore
it. Only Durr and his partners seem to want to solve it. As Paddy fights through the obstruction and outright incompetence within his own department, he is on the verge of an emotional and psychological breakdown. After a lifetime of self destructiveness, fueled by a childhood of abuse and sexual exploitation, Durr is walking the razor’s edge between sanity and despair. In peril of losing his family, he has brought his personal life to the brink of ruin. Can he hold it together long enough to solve this murder? Can he come to grips with his ingrained sense of worthlessness and a lifetime of abandonment, to salvage his marriage and family life? Or will he implode, irrevocably destroying his career, his family and himself?

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Michael O'keefe

AUTHOR | POET | DETECTIVE

Michael O’Keefe is a retired 1st Grade Detective from the NYPD. For twenty-four years, he worked in the toughest neighborhoods in New York, specializing in investigating Homicides and other violent crime. He was born and raised on the mean streets described in his fiction. His
characters and settings are drawn from the people he encountered there—on both sides of the law. Shot to Pieces is his first novel, published this July. He is presently near completion on two others. He lives on Long Island with his family, where he writes a little, and practices the ancient martial arts of lawn, and swimming pool maintenance—when he is not coaching football.

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Here are Michael's published works:

Michael O’Keefe has had two short stories, Tic, Tic, Boom! and The Mandela Effect, published in Pulpmetalmagazine.com. The short story The Cigar, appeared in Near to the Knuckle magazine in early August, in addition to the story Hatchet, which appeared in Near to the Knuckle in December. The short story Moments, originally written in 1984, was published in The Raven’s Perch Magazine, in December as well. His story Hatchet was also featured in Manslaughter review this Summer. In August of this year, the short story Dylan Thomas was published in The Raven's Perch. For this Halloween, Sundown at the Toxic Shock Syndrome in Near to the Knuckle Magazine.

Michael has had six poems appear in the Raven’s Perch Magazine, and two in Vox Poetica. He has also had poems featured in the 2016 and 2017 publication of The Bard’s Annual, and a chap book of his poetry, to be published by Local Gems Press. Michael’s poetry is regularly featured by the Performance Poetry Association of Long Island. Despite swearing to everyone he’s not a poet, he is in fact an award-winning poet, having won third place in the Princess Ronkonkoma Productions annual poetry prize. Here are links to some of Michael's poetry.

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This week on Police Off The Cuff Bill and Mark talk to Michael O'Keefe about his fight to the death with Kiko Garcia which was used to spark The 1992 Washing...

Michael O'Keefe is a retired 1st Grade Detective from the NYPD. For twenty-four years, he worked in the toughest neighborhoods in New York, specializing in i...

This week on Police Off The Cuff Bill and Mark talk to Michael O'Keefe about his fight to the death with Kiko Garcia which was used to spark The 1992 Washing...