Elliott Murphy – Crossing Over

Jack Horton's luck changes with the pull of a slot—$147,000—and a bright, dangerous invitation into a stranger's life. Temptation becomes transgression when Jack trades on that luck: an affair, a fast friendship with a man who wears Park Avenue like armor, and a fifty-thousand-dollar favor he will later swear he never intended to spend.

Across town, Phil Cassavetti runs money and men for a crime family that believes in clean books and blood ties. When a botched execution spits a human head into the river and a fire that looks too neat consumes three Queens buildings, FBI Agent Elliott Murphy—recently sober, quietly furious—follows the money to the men who hide behind it.

What follows is a sharp and inevitable collision: a kidnapped wife who escapes with a duffel of cash; a vengeful widow who will do anything to cut loose threads; and a compromised man who must decide if confession buys his life or ends it. In this urgent, unflinching thriller, redemption sits on a table with a loaded gun—and the only moral calculus is survival. Who will live with what they've done?