The Education of Patrick Silver

"Snaking his way through the pornographic cosmos of New York, First Deputy Police Commissioner Isaac Sidel stalks with mythic vengeance his sidewalk demons: a demented childkiller, the murderous Peruvian pimps of the Guzmann clan, and a huge renegade cop who has switched sides. Busted from the force is towering, unsaintly, Irish-Jewish Patrick Silver, one of the most outrageous and human characters Jerome Charyn has sketched onto his spectacular canvas of big-city cops, crooks, and freaks. In a story that races with electric passions and power, Silver plays bedmate to Odile, a teenage priestess of the porno screen, and bodyguard to mentally deficient, 44-year old Geronimo Guzmann, who may be "the lipstick freak," the child molester that Isaac, Blue Godfather of New York's finest, is hunting down."