From the back cover: "There have been far happier New Year's for the beleaguered cops of the 87th Precinct. A wealthy young couple has returned home from a party to discover their babysitter and her infant charge savagely murdered. While out in the streets, warring gangs prepare to rip the city to pieces, arming up to ring in the new with blood and fire. There's a sinister song of death and destruction echoing throughout the 87th on this fearful First - and it isn't Auld Lang Syne!"

I bought this paperback from The Friends of the Library for release.

"Nobody writes better detective fiction than Ed McBain. Nobody." West Coast Review of Books

Released on Monday, May 26, 2003 at Albertsons Grocery Store, Pacific and Carpenter in Lacey, Washington USA.