McBain drops you into a single wild Halloween night in the 87th Precinct, where the masks come off and every trick on the street turns mean. A serial killer is staging murders like twisted magic acts, the detectives are chasing ghosts through the city’s after-hours chaos, and the case keeps doubling back on itself with grim humor and grit. Fast, sharp, and full of that classic McBain snap, Tricks reads like a night shift gone off the rails—funny, bleak, and razor-tight crime fiction.
