Rogue NYC cop locks horns with two of the most dangerous criminals in the world. Shades of Pulp Fiction, The Card Counter, Wrath of Man, and House of Games, wrapped into a new-fashioned crime thriller. [

SYNOPSIS:

NYPD Detective Michael Brill has an unconventional background. Born into wealth, he graduated Columbia as Class Valedictorian. Brill and fellow Detective Lance Hirsch are more like brothers than partners; Brill is close with Lance's wife Melissa and their two kids.

The Detectives work an international task force, centered on notorious South African businessman Trevor Novak, a high-level diamond thief with legitimate business concerns in the casino industry. In more ways than one, Novak is partnered with Daria, the world's most feared assassin, a lethal young lady with a baby face. With intel suggesting Novak is in NY to have his ill-gotten diamonds fenced, Brill and Lance stake him out, before Daria intercepts them, killing Lance. Brill outwits her, barely escaping with his life. When the dust settles, Melissa Hirsch begs Brill to find her husband's killers, and end them. Brill makes a sacred vow to do exactly that. Facing a bleak future as a cop, he quits.

Daria can't fathom that "random cop" Brill had her dead to rights. She and Jann emerge from the safety and seclusion of Johannesberg to fly to the states, where he'll smuggle in the diamonds, then sell them on the black market. As for Daria, she wants to have at Brill again.

Despite his promise to Melissa, Brill seems adrift, spending his days comped in Atlantic City's Golden Diamond hotel and casino, playing blackjack (badly), losing thousands of dollars at a clip. Golden Diamond hostess Jennifer Keck takes an active interest in him, dropping hints that there may be more to her -- and them -- than meets the eye. As the story weaves back and forth through time in a non-linear fashion, a fuller picture emerges: everything Brill has done since his partner's death is calibrated for effect... as he slowly, methodically plots his revenge.