Detective Billy Harney's reputation as a dirty cop may be the only
thing keeping Chicago clean in James Patterson's most
critically-acclaimed thriller since The Black Book.
For Detective Billy Harney, getting shot in the head, stalked by a
state's attorney, and accused of murder by his fellow cops is a normal
week on the job. So when a drive-by shooting on the Chicago's west side
turns political, he leads the way to a quick solve. But Harney's
instincts--his father was once chief of detectives and his twin sister,
Patti, is also on the force--run deep. As a population hungry for
justice threatens to riot, he realizes that the three known victims are
hardly the only casualties.
When Harney starts asking questions about who's to blame, the easy
answers prove to be the wrong ones. On the flip side, the less he seems
to know, the longer he can keep his clandestine investigation going . .
. until Harney's quest to expose the evil that's rotting the city from
the inside out takes him to the one place he vowed never to return: his
own troubled past.