Girl In The Cockpit is one of the best of the Ed Noon books. It’s smoothly plotted, filled with action, and swimming in Avallone’s great descriptive prose. It marks the return of Noon from being the President’s secret agent to being just a plain d private eye in a tiny office, the mouse auditorium, where he continued his love affair with his secretary, Melissa.
The story involves a decades old promise, a lower east side gang (the Hawks) right out of West Side Story, a young fiery Sicilian woman with looks that would spin every man’s head around, a mobbed up guy running a nightclub, a vengeful Sicilian teenager, and a junkyard.
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