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Ty Connell, Girl Cut Out, Book #2 in The 'Cutting It' Trilogy, is a mystery/suspense, action romance thriller ...

A troubled young woman and an undercover cop vow vengeance against the same man - her crime boss step dad - in a deadly fight-and-flight battle around New York.

Danica ‘Dani' O'Banion, at twenty-three, knows exactly what she wants: the inheritance left to her by a mother she loved deeply. But step-father John O'Banion, her executor, runs her life like he runs his criminal enterprises: exactly the way he wants. And what he wants is for her to let him manage her money and not push the matter. But push it she does, fighting to force his hand.

Det. Ty Connell is on a few weeks’ holidays in Manhattan, a city he loves but knows only as a tourist. When his cousin Cal takes a stray bullet in a staged gangland shooting in a West Side bar... someone's gonna pay.

When Connell learns that John O'Banion is the madman behind the depraved incident, he resolves to goes under in a city he doesn’t know to get vengeance for his cousin’s death.

Connell manages to infiltrate Johnny O’s empire as a kitchen worker in the monster mid-town steakhouse O'Banion operates as a front.

When Dani comes storming into the restaurant and into his life, he’s convinced that she’s mentally unstable and is nothing but trouble. But when she kidnaps him and takes him on a wild ride to Atlantic City, a revenge trip to spite O'Banion and to burn through some of his casino credit, he gets a glimpse behind the curtain into her world and at what is driving her extreme behavior.

Connell has two allies on his undercover objective: Lt. Sam Dantino, of the Mid-town North Precinct who is his only police contact while under; and Katy Duggan a gritty small-time newspaper reporter who is onto O'Banion and is on a crusade to take O'Banion down.

Together, Connell and Natalie are about to blow open O'Banion’s empire when O'Banion catches wind. O'Banion has Dantino shot on the way home from work which leaves Connell cut off from outside support. He and Natalie soon find themselves on the run when Johnny O sends his men out to find them and take them out … for good.

From O'Banion’s uptown warehouse headquarters, to a vacant condo suite on Fifth Avenue where Natalie and Connell have holed up, to the West Side docks where Johnny O’s big heist is going down, the action careens from uptown to downtown.

Connell contacts Katy Duggan who connects him with a trusted NYPD captain.

There is a race to a disturbing conclusion at O'Banion’s Long Island mansion, a resolution with more than a few jolting twists and turns and with a shocking showdown and reveal at the end.

In the book, Michael Hughes explores a new world of policing; INSOURCE, intel sourcing. It is the undercover work of building a reliable network of CIs, confidential informants, and ICs, intelligence contacts. It is moving policing more into areas normally the preserve of the military and intelligence agencies. There is also another bit of cutting edge police work that his lead character, Connell, calls GSR, Guided Subconscious Retrieval, his signature crime scene technique that allows him to "see" things other don't. You will find those and other insider police practices you won't see on TV.

GIRL CUT OUT by Michael C. Hughes is Book #2 of THE 'CUTTING IT' TRILOGY in the Ty Connell series. Look for Book #1, THE PRODUCER'S CUT, and Book #3, CUT WORK.

Book #1 in THE 'CUTTING IT' TRILOGY by Michael C. Hughes, THE PRODUCER'S CUT, features Bobbi Stratos, a gorgeous LA private eye who must team up with Connell on a series of gruesome murders in Boston's emerging film colony. Someone's gonna pay!

Book #3 in THE 'CUTTING IT' TRILOGY by Michael C. Hughes, CUT WORK, features Dr. Julia Reesman, an ME battling PTSD and looking for redemption while working with Connell while he is handed a seemingly insolvable case. Someone's gonna pay!