"It happened to cops all the time: guys work all night, sleep all day. They lose track of wives, kids, days, months, lies they've told, bars they can't get back into, women they've screwed, stories about them that aren't true..." When two veteran New York City detectives, Anthony Ryan and Joe Gregory, discover the body of a police captain floating off South Street Seaport's Peck Slip, their investigation threatens to turn their own force against them.

A wall in the Bronx has suddenly started seeping holy water, and the faithful mob the place, lining up for their share. When a car containing a dead local mobster pulls up in front of the crowd, the case seems simple. But in New York, nothing is easy.

Detective Joe Gregory and his partner, Anthony Ryan, investigate the murder of Johnny Boy Counihan, the son of Gregory's former partner, after the young man apparently stumbles into the middle of a multi-million-dollar robbery at JFK airport while wearing his father's blue police overcoat

A young actress plummets through the sky, slamming down onto the roof of a parked car. Detectives Anthony Ryan and Joe Gregory believe the Broadway star's "suicide" may actually be something more sinister. The main suspect is a big-time Broadway producer with a shady past. But who is the mysterious figure known only as the "Juggler" — and what connection does he have to the dead girl? From the back alleys of Broadway to the vanishing Irish communities of Yonkers, Ryan and Gregory work through family secrets and tarnished reputations to find out what really happened on that balcony. As they discover the truth, the case becomes personal for Ryan, bringing him dangerously close to losing everything.