The Red Book
James Patterson
For Detective Billy Harney, the distance from hero to statistic is one false move.
To
Harney, the newest member of Chicago PD's elite strike force -- Special
Operations Section (SOS) -- getting shot in the head, stalked by a
state's attorney, and accused of murder by his fellow cops is all part
of breaking a case.
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 ones.
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...