Ethan Blackwood
The Equation of Vengeance
This is the story of what a mind can do when it has nothing left to
protect and everything left to avenge. It is a story about physics and chemistry
and the laws that govern matter and energy and the movement of bodies
through space. It is a story about a father who loved his daughter and lost her
and could not bring her back and so did the only thing he could: he balanced
the equation.
The equation of vengeance.
The equation of love.
The same equation, all along.
Ethan Blackwood
BLACKOUT
BLACKOUT
In the sweltering summer of 1977, New York City is a powder keg — crime soaring, lights flickering, and a killer moving through the streets with twenty years of patience and a wire garrote.
Detective Jack Rourke catches a case that shouldn't matter: a retired firefighter found hanged in a Bowery apartment. But the knots are wrong, the victim was afraid of water, and in his hand is a charred photograph of a burning orphanage. The trail leads back to 1957, to St. Jude's Home for Children, where eleven children and a nun died in a fire that was ruled an accident. It wasn't.…