Author Nathan Gottlieb Hosts Book Party at Rudy's in NYC on June 20.

Nathan Gottlieb, author, HBO Boxing writer, and former Star-Ledger of Newark Knicks beat writer‎, will host a cocktail reception to launch the “The Zero Tolerance Game,” the newest book in his Frank Boff Mystery Series. The public is welcome. Cash bar. Here are the details: Who: Author Nathan GottliebSpecial Guest: Ex-DEA Agent/P.I. Fred BoffWhat: Book party to launch “The Zero Tolerance Game”Date: Monday, June 20, 2016Time: 4:00-6:00 PMWhere: Rudy’s Bar & GrillAddress: West 44th Street @ Ninth Avenue, New York CityRSVP: John Cirillo, johnnycigarpr@aol.com, or text: 914-260-7436Menu: Hot Dogs, a Boff addiction and Rudy’s specialty, and “The Gottlieb,” Nathan’s vodka concoction featuring pepperoncini, will be servedTo Reach Nathan directly: Gottliebnathan10@gmail.comHere’s a link to Gottlieb’s author website: http://www.nathangottlieb.com/Here’s link to his author’s page on Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Nathan-Gottlieb/e/B003ZO29PM/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_ebooks_1Nathan Gottlieb is a former sportswriter for the Star-Ledger who covered the Knicks as beat writer for nine seasons, college basketball, Monmouth Park, the Yankees, Mets, boxing, and sports television during a 21-year career at the Newark, NJ daily newspaper. He currently writes boxing stories for HBO’s website, an assignment he began in 2005.Mr. Gottlieb was born in Newark, and raised in Maplewood, NJ. He attended Columbia High School, and received his BA from Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Prior to “The Zero Tolerance Game,” Gottlieb published seven other books, “The Hurting Game,” “The Punishing Game,” “The Killer Sex Game,” “The Payback Game,” “The Death Dealing Game,” “Stinger” and “The Zukovka Experiment.” He is presently working on the seventh book in the Frank Boff Mystery Series.Fred BoffFred Boff is a former DEA agent and retired high-profile private investigator. A lifelong New Jersey native, he played varsity basketball and graduated from Elizabeth HS and Kean College.After graduating Kean he was recruited by the DEA where he was a Special Agent for 14 years. When he left the DEA he became a high profile private investigator. His notable clients included Doris Duke and Imelda Marcos. He was involved in The Great Mob Trial in NJ, which resulted in a book by Bob Rudolph (of the Ledger), and The Cowboy Mafia, a case with multiple murders, politics, and massive drug smuggling that involved Texas, Florida, New Jersey and other parts of the country. Boff has lived most of his adult life in New Jersey, and has been married to Ginger for 47 years. His son, Dave, has been head basketball coach at Roselle Catholic in Jersey for nine years and during that time he has helped make the school one of the preeminent programs not just in the state (3 titles), but nationally as well.His daughter, Suzie, is an attorney, who lives in NJ with her lawyer husband and their three boys. “The Zero Tolerance Game”BOOK DESCRIPTION:

The odd couple of private investigators is back!

Frank Boff, the legendary DEA agent turned rogue P.I., teams up again with the volatile Emily Lynch, a six foot, alpha-female detective on suspension from the NYPD because of a drinking problem.

On a perfect summer day where seemingly nothing could go wrong, everything does. Boff walks his client to his car and is heading to retrieve his own vehicle, when he hears a tremendous explosion behind him. He looks back and is shocked to see his client’s car engulfed in flames.

Boff’s shock turns to anger as he realizes if he had been closer to the vehicle, he’d be dead now. He knows in an instant that whoever did this is going to pay. Big time.

When Boff gets home, he receives a phone call from an old high school buddy who was wrongfully convicted of murder and sent to prison for life at the age of seventeen.

Twenty-nine years later, his friend’s conviction has been overturned, and he’s being released with only one thought in mind: hire Boff to help find the real killer and punish him.

Faced with two murder cases, Boff needs a partner. With reluctance he turns to the combustible Lynch, who after her latest bout of binge drinking, finds herself homeless and sleeping in subways and shelters.

Inevitably, sparks fly between them as they struggle to solve two cases involving warring snipers on New York City rooftops, the world’s most ruthless drug cartel, corrupt federal agents, and caffeinated mobsters who’ll stop at nothing to get what they want.

In this second installment of the Boff-Lynch team, nothing is as it appears to be, and the truth is buried beneath layers of lies and deceit.