Since Gabriel Cohen's entrance onto the crime fiction scene, he has wowed critics and readers alike with his atmospheric, emotionally-driven novels. The Ninth Step is his most ambitious yet. Homicide detective Jack Leightner's brother was killed in a mugging in 1965, an incident Jack always blamed on himself. Now a stranger tells him that he was a member of a gang that had been hired by a local Mafioso to mug the two boys. The man doesn't know why...