Matt Burgess, Doubleday, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-385-53298-3
Burgess's high-octane debut is a post-9/11 shout-out to the borough of Queens, with its roiling mix of cultures. The story chronicles one tense weekend in the life of Alfredo Batista, a 19-year-old Puerto Rican weed dealer trying to set up a...
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Matt Burgess. Doubleday, $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-385-53680-6
The uncle of the title of this gripping, well-written book set on the mean streets of contemporary Queens is an undercover narcotics officer in the NYPD. “Uncle” Janice Itwaru, a New Yorker of Guyanese descent, poses as a drug addict to make “buys”...
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Matt Burgess, read by Rachel Fulginiti. HighBridge Audio, , unabridged, 8 CDs, 10 hrs., $34.99 ISBN 978-1-62231-608-3
The heroine of Burgess’s novel is 24-year-old Janice Itwaru, an “uncle”—NYPD slang for undercover narc—just a month shy of getting her detective shield. The promotion won’t be easy. Working the mean streets of Queens circa 2008—dealing with pushers,
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