Joe Serpe · Book 1
Hose Monkey
- Published
- 1 January 2006
- Pages
- 292
- ISBN-13
- 9781932557183
- Type
- novel
About this book
Hose Monkey, published 1 January 2006, opens the Joe Serpe trilogy at 292 pages under Reed Farrel Coleman's pen name Tony Spinosa, as the disgraced ex-NYPD detective turned oil-truck driver finds a body beside his delivery route.
Its place in Joe Serpe
Hose Monkey is book 1 in the Joe Serpe series. It is followed by Gun Bunnies. See the full Joe Serpe reading order.
Joe Serpe is a disgraced former NYPD narcotics detective driving a heating-oil delivery truck on Long Island, trying to outrun a reputation built on a corruption scandal that ended his career. Reed Farrel Coleman wrote the trilogy under the pen name Tony Spinosa, a deliberate break from the literary, elegiac voice of his Moe Prager novels — the Serpe books are pulpier, faster, and rooted in the blue-collar, oil-truck-and-diner world of Long Island's North Shore rather than Brooklyn's old neighborhoods. Serpe's…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781932557183