King City
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"Major Crimes Unit detective Tom Wade secretly worked with the Feds to nail seven of his fellow cops for corruption...turning him into a pariah in the police department. So he's exiled to patrol a beat in King City's deadliest neighborhood...with no backup, no resources, and no hope of survival. Now Wade fights to tame the lawless, poverty-stricken wasteland while investigating a string of brutal murders of young women. It's a case that takes him from the squalor of the inner city to the manicured enclaves of the priviliged, revealing the sordid and deadly ways the two worlds are intertwined...making his enemies even more determined to crush him. But for Tom Wade, backing down is never an option...even if it will cost him his life."--P. [4] of cover.
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One part Jack Reacher, one part Jesse Stone, this first installment in Lee Goldberg's new series reads like a Western set in the 21st century.
Tom Wade, a rigorously scrupulous cop is assigned to a part of King City so crime and poverty-ridden that city officials pretend it doesn't exist. He's sent there because the police force is overly-politicized where it isn't overtly corrupted, and they can't fire such an upstanding cop–but maybe his new post will lead to him being killed.
Wade is fully aware of this, but accepts his new post with gusto–he has a chance to make a difference and sets out to do so in as splashy a way as possible.
This isn't a subtle book with complex characters–and doesn't try to be. The characters are pretty much the dictionary definition of “stock,” the good guys are good, the bad guys are really bad–and that's that. A fun, straightforward testosterone-y action book. Hopefully the first of many.
