Dave Gurney, the most decorated homicide detective in the history of the NYPD, is pulled out of retirement once again when his former partner Jack Hardwick comes to him with a puzzling case. A real estate developer with outsize political ambitions has been murdered, shot by an assassin during his mother's funeral. The developer's unfaithful wife has been convicted and sentenced to life in prison--except Jack's convinced she's been framed, and he wants Dave to help him prove it. Gurney starts investigating, and soon uncovers a number of oddities in the prosecution's case. As he digs further, increasingly twisted revelations come to light, and before long his actions have placed him on a collision course with two very dangerous men: a murderous cop driven by rage, and the world's scariest hit man, a terrifying Greek assassin known in the underworld as "Peter Pan." But police corruption, political assassinations, and multiple murders are merely the deceptive surface. As Dave probes into a thicket of poisonous lies, he discovers that he may be risking everything on behalf of a woman who might not be so innocent after all...and that the horrific truth is far more shocking than anyone could have imagined. Packed with twists that readers will never see coming, a villain you'll never forget, and the most explosively cinematic finale the Gurney series has ever had, Peter Pan Must Die is John Verdon's best book yet.