The Tide Takes Everything
A Novel of the Working Waterfront

About this book:

**The Tide Takes Everything** plunges you into the salt-rusted veins of 1932 New York, where Prohibition is drowning in its own corruption and the waterfront runs on whiskey, violence, and silence. Arthur Vance is a harbor clerk who lives by the ledger—until a dead man’s red notebook reveals that the numbers don’t add up, and the Assistant Harbor Master is signing off on midnight cargo that doesn’t exist. Jack Riley is a rum-runner with a leaking launch, a price on his head, and a delivery due at Pier 4 before the cutters’ new searchlights sweep the Narrows. When a setup forces them into the same speeding boat, the clerk and the smuggler become the only witnesses to a conspiracy that reaches from the coal chutes to the corridors of power.

With the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment looming, the bootleggers are cashing out, the syndicate is tying off loose ends, and Thomas Miller’s "accidental" drowning looks more like a message every day. Caught between a harbor master who orders evidence burned and a distributor who feeds traitors to the current, Arthur and Jack have twenty-four hours to decode the ledger, expose the pipeline, and survive the night—because on this waterfront, the tide doesn’t just take the cargo. It takes the witnesses, too.

Atmospheric, relentless, and steeped in the grit of a working harbor, **The Tide Takes Everything** is historical noir at its sharpest: a tale of two men who play by different rules, bound by a secret the river won’t keep.