"The too-short life of Nicholas Pekearo was both triumph and tragedy.
He died a hero’s death, sacrificing his own life to save others.  And
now comes The Wolfman, a brilliant, insightful, overpowering debut from
a writer who studied, listened, and learned before he took his
shot…and centered the bulls-eye.  Published posthumously, this
"debut" novel is a triumph."–Andrew Vachss

Nicholas Pekearo’s first novel, The Wolfman, will be released in the coming weeks from Tor Books.

Pekearo, a young writer, who lived in Park Slope, was killed in the line of duty while volunteering as an NYPD Auxiliary Police Officer in the neighborhood he grew up in, New York City’s Greenwich Village.

He worked in bookstores throughout New York City, including Crawford-Doyle on Madison Avenue. The Wolfman is his first published novel.

Marlowe Higgins has had a hard life. Since being dishonorably discharged after a tour in Vietnam, he’s been in and out of prison, moving from town to town, going wherever the wind takes him. He can’t stay in one place too long–every full moon he kills someone.

Marlowe Higgins is a werewolf. For years he struggled with his affliction, until he found a way to use this unfortunate curse for good–he only kills really bad people.

Settling at last in the small town of Evelyn, Higgins works at a local restaurant and even has a friend, Daniel Pearce, one of Evelyn’s two police detectives.

One night everything changes. It turns out Marlowe Higgins isn’t the only monster lurking in the area. A fiendish serial killer, known as the Rose Killer, is brutally murdering young girls all around the county. Higgins targets the killer as his next victim, but on the night of the full moon, things go drastically wrong. . . .