The Game of Thirty

Streetwise PI Jimmy McShane has seen plenty, but he’s never seen anything like the murder of Tommy Rennseler.

A wealthy antiques dealer with a passion for Egyptian artifacts, Rennseler was killed like an ancient Egyptian: injected with cobra venom and ritually disemboweled. When he’s hired by the dead man’s daughter, McShane realizes that he’s never seen anything like Temple Rennseler, either. She’s beautiful, exotic and – obsessed with the Game of 30, a centuries-old form of chess that – perhaps – foretells the future. As McShane gets closer to the killer, he finds himself trapped in a more deadly game, with Manhattan as the game board.