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A serial killer wants to be the best. He turns a yellow cab into a killing machine and writes a letter to the leading sports writer in NYC telling him he is going to kill one person a week. This will send the City into a panic. He picks, as his victims prominent New Yorkers, his former classmates from prep school and some random elderly people. Ian MacDonald, a seasoned Assistant District Attorney in the New York County (Manhattan) District Attorneys Office works with the NYPD to try and stop the killings.

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A graduate of St Lawrence University and Columbia Law School, Rod went directly to the New York County (Manhattan) District Attorneys Office which was then led by the legendary Frank S Hogan. After passing through the various junior bureaus in that office, he was assigned to the Homicide Bureau where he remained until Hogan made him Chief of the Complaint Bureau where most of the rookies in the office where trained. He then served as Chief of the Criminal Courts Bureau. After Hogan died and Robert M Morgenthau was elected the District Attorney, he was made Chief of the Supreme Court Bureau from which position he helped reorganize the office and was designated Chief of the Trial Division by Morgrenthau. As such he was in charge of most of the trials conducted by that office and supervised more than half the Assistants. Rod left the DA's office to become Chief Assistant Special Prosecutor to Special Prosecutor John F Keenan. They were in charge of all investigations and prosecutions of corruption in the New York City Crimainal Justice System. He was appointed Special Prosecutor when Keenan was appointed a Federal district judge. Rod left public service to form a law firm with John S Siffert and Frank S Wohl. Though he is retired, The firm continues as Lankler Siffert & Wohl. He has served on the Committee on the Judiciary for the Mayor of the City of New York, The Chief Judge's Advisory Committee on Criminal law and Procedure for the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals of the State of New York,as a commissioner on the New York City Commission to investigate Alleged Police Corruption (the Mollen Commission). In 1994 he went to Washington D C as First Deputy Independent Counsel to Independent Counsel Robert B Fiske, Jr in charge of the Whitewater investigation. He is a member emeritus of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Rod considers his greatest achievement to be his marriage of sixty years to his wife Barbara, who helped write FIXER, and who helped him raise four sons. They have given him four wonderful daughters-in-law and ten grandchildren. Rod hastens to add that Ian MacDonald is not him and he is not Ian MacDonald --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

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