Description This book is the source for Jack Handler's notorious Inscrutable Puzzle.
It is introduced in the latter chapters and has never been solved, even after publication of the sixth book in the series.
It is a puzzle that would make Alan Turing proud.
RBEU NDRA YNYA OTAO YRGG FUBE YCOT BNBB YCAO RDGG Nothing else can hurt this calloused retired Chicago homicide detective (or so he thinks), not after he lost his beautiful young Beth to bullets meant for him nearly 30 years ago.
But when Jack's cell phone vibrates at 5: 30 a.
on Christmas morning, little could he have predicted the challenges that lurked.
Kate, Jack's daughter (herself a NY homicide detective), enlists his help on a murder case she is working.
The intrigue compounds when he learns her case is intricately entwined with a plot to assassinate a sitting President, and that a former first lady is one of the conspirators.
But the situation only gets worse with Jack's involvement, as it leads to a group of foreign agents kidnapping Kate in order to coerce Jack's bidding.
He must then balance his focus between rescuing his daughter, and preventing the assassination.
If that were not complicated enough, the conspirators attempt to contract Jack for the hit.
The story unfolds on the streets of New York City, with visits to Upstate New York, DC, and Chicago.
This is what one reader had to say: Jack and the New York Death Mask is Scary Good This book reminds me of what House of Cards would look like if Tom Clancy had written it.
The story is told that some of Clancy's books drew the ire of military and government officials because they assumed that the writer had managed to get his hands on inside or classified information, an accusation that Clancy vehemently denied at the time.
Recent blog posts and articles (conspiracy theorists?) however suggest that the claims about Clancy's inside sources might have had some merit.
In Jack and the New York Death Mask Allison's assassination plot against a sit.
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Greenwich Village Ink Jack and the new york death mask, paperback/michael carrier
