"AN AMAZING FIRST NOVEL." --MICHAEL CONNELLY The debut novel from
award-winning crime reporter James Queally All favors come with a
cost, and after using what little favors he has in the Newark PD to get
his private investigators license, former crime reporter Russell Avery
finds himself paying. He spends his days reluctantly keeping sideways
cops out of the crosshairs of the Internal Affairs department. Until
Keyonna Jackson, a social justice activist, presents him with a
troubling video: a made-for-Youtube cell phone snippet chronicling the
same kind of questionable use-of-force that had set New York City,
Ferguson, and Cleveland on fire in recent years. The same use-of-force
that he's been covering up for Newark PD. Now, the young black man who
filmed this video is dead and the more questions Russell asks, the less
his cop buddies like him. For the first time in his life, Russell finds
himself on the wrong side of the guys with the badges and guns. When
details of the shooting become public--and a city with race riots in its
DNA flirts with the idea of letting history repeat itself--Russell finds
himself allying with street activists and gang members as he races to
put together the biggest story of his life... before the city he needs
to tell it to burns down around him.
