**The dramatic new novel in the Philadelphia police saga by #1 _New York Times_ -bestselling author W. E. B. Griffin.** In Philadelphia--suffering among the country's highest murder rates--the tension between the Philadelphia Police Department and its Citizens Oversight Committee has long been
Deadly Assets
β Scribed by W.E.B. Griffin
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 231 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0698164466
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β¦ Synopsis
The dramatic new novel in the Philadelphia police saga by #1 New York Times -bestselling author W. E. B. Griffin.
In Philadelphia--suffering among the country's highest murder rates--the tension between the Philadelphia Police Department and its Citizens Oversight Committee has long been reaching a boiling point. That turmoil turns from bad to worse shortly after the committee begins targeting police shootings--especially those of twenty-seven-year-old Homicide Sergeant Matt Payne, the "Wyatt Earp of the Main Line"--and then the committee's combative leader is found shot dead point-blank on the front porch of his run-down Philly row house.
As chanting protesters fill the streets, the city threatens to erupt. Payne, among many others accused of being complicit in the leader's death, becomes quietly furious. He suspects there's something deeper behind it all, but what? Ordered to stay out of the line of fire, he struggles...
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