from the AP

Novel by Slain NYPD Volunteer Published

Sunday, March 9, 2008 2:00 PM

NEW YORK — A volunteer police officer shot dead by a gunman on a rampage in Greenwich Village last year will have his first novel published posthumously this spring.

Nicholas Pekearo’s “The Wolfman” is due out May 13 from Tor Books.

The New York-based publisher was working with Pekearo when he and fellow auxiliary officer Eugene Marshalik were killed while on patrol on March 14, 2007. The gunman, David Garvin, fatally shot a pizza parlor bartender before leading the volunteer officers on a chase. Garvin was ultimately shot and killed by full-time police.

Pekearo’s novel centers on a werewolf trying to do right in difficult times. Pekearo’s editor, Eric Raab, says he had hoped it would blossom into a series.

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