Timothy's Game — Lawrence Sanders

Timothy Cone is not a smooth man.

In fact he's a scrawny, scruffy, chain-smoking, junk-food-stained disgrace. In his barely furnished, hardly ever cleaned, lower broadway loft, he and Cleo, his live-in neutered tomcat, exist on take-aways and left-overs.

Yet many of the people he deals with are very smooth indeed.

For Timothy Cone is also the smartest, toughest, most persistant private investigator around, working for an off-Wall Street outfit that provides financial intelligence for corporate and individual clients. He moves in a world of stock market scams, insurance fraud, commercial espionage and legit business fronts for laundered Mob money.

So beneath the smooth manners and the expense-account veneer are some very rough customers indeed. People who will kill to win in a world where greed rules.

Timothy Cone, like his cat, is a street-fighting, life scarred veteran. A Survivor.