Purple Heart 01-02

New York, 1946. Joshua, a former soldier and recipient of the prestigious Purple Heart, works as an investigator for a legal practice, alongside his old unit commander. Between them, a father-son bond is created, based on respect and duty. In the first volume of the series, Joshua is put in charge of finding out who is blackmailing a real estate magnate, eighty-year-old businessman Roland Husler. His wife - the daughter of an English diplomat, born in Hong Kong - has had a troubled past, and now someone's trying to cash in on it. Josh meets the couple and discovers very quickly that their glamorous exterior hides some dark secrets...
Joshua quit law school to go fight the Nazis in Europe. He was awarded the Purple Heart after he and his buddy were victims of a landmine. No medal on Earth, however, can assuage the trauma of being unable to save your brother-in-arms. Back home in the States, Joshua tries to make up for lost time, with one romantic conquest after another. Working as a private eye in New York, he's been assigned to a blackmail case that leads him to a world of love nests, Nazi thugs, stolen art, and a whole slew of other dirty deeds. The fighting in Europe may be finished, but for those who survived, the war continues to fester at the core of the Big Apple.