Devil’s Negotiation. Jax Harlan, #1

The city kept what it broke. Twelve years ago, Jax Harlan solved the best case of his career and lost everything for it: the badge, the marriage, the unscarred half of his face. Now he works out of a converted storage room above a strip club in Hell's Kitchen, three fingers into a bottle most nights, waiting for something to happen. Something happens. Her name is Elena Voss. Her husband owns clubs, moves product, and drove to a warehouse in Red Hook on Monday evening and never came home.
She has five thousand dollars in an envelope and a reason for hiring Jax that isn't flattering: nobody would investigate his death. What he finds in that warehouse puts him between a Russian enforcer who has run the city's supply for a decade and a rival no one has ever seen - a man with no face, no name, and no seam an investigator can get a thumb into. Both of them want what Jax is carrying. Only one of them has to reach him first.
He has a useless revolver, a dying informant, an old woman who sells secrets over bergamot tea, and a client he can't decide whether to trust or bury. It isn't enough. He goes anyway. Devil's Negotiation is a hard, literary crime novel about the price of being right in a system that was never broken - a system that has been working exactly as designed the whole time. Book One of the Jax Harlan series.