Dark horse : an Eddy Harkness novel
(Book)

During a late-summer hurricane, Boston narcotics detective Eddy Harkness and his team discover a deaf boy, alone with the still warm body of his uncle and a boatload of Dark Horse, a particularly lethal heroin brand, in a South End apartment. Mayor Mark O'Meara is a notorious slimeball in a city known for monumental scumbags. His latest scheme is a major real estate development that will replace South End's poor residents with a pristine monument to yuppie living. Eddy thinks that is a bad idea, especially when it becomes clear the mayor's plotting may be the fuel behind the surge in Dark Horse.