Griffins popular Badge of Honor police series returns, with a story of murder and lawlessness as compelling as todays headlines.
Just as with his remarkable military novels, millions of readers have been captured by the rich characters and vivid realism of W. E. B. Griffins police dramas. Griffin has the knack, writes The Philadelphia Inquirer. He sets his novel before you in short, fierce, stop-for-nothing scenes. Before you know it, youve gobbled it up.
Homicide Sergeant Matthew Payne is used to murder, but lately theres been an awful lot of it in Philadelphia. A gangland shooting in a popular tourist location has left six dead, most of them innocent bystanders, and days later the body of a headless Latina turns up in the Schuykill River. Everybody assumes theyre not related, but Payne cant shake the hunch that theres something more to itand that hunch leads him far from the City of Brotherly Love to the TexasMexico border. There, he finds a world where the lines of law and order are murkier than he ever imagined possible, and the daily question is O Plato o Plomo? Silver or lead. Cash or death.
Which will Matt Payne take? Or will he just go home, glad to be alive . . . ?
Filled with authentic color and detail, this is a riveting novel of the men and women who put their lives on the line, from the cop on the beat to the commissioner himself. Its a story of fears, dangers, courage, loyalty, and genuine heroism: storytelling at its best.
From Publishers Weekly
Dope smuggling, prostitution and murder preoccupy Sgt. Matt Payne of the Philadelphia PD in the uneven ninth Badge of Honor novel from bestseller Griffin and son Butterworth (after Final Justice). Payne, known as the Wyatt Earp of the Main Line because of his involvement in so many shootings, receives a call from an old pal, Chad Nesbitt, who tells him that a mutual friend, Skipper Olde, is somehow involved in a catastrophic fire. Matt doesn't care about Skipper, but Skipper's girlfriend, whom Matt had a crush on in high school, has been badly burned. Meanwhile, 21-year-old Juan Paulo Delgado, El Gato, is going about his usual business of pimping, beating and beheading undocumented Mexican women. Sophomoric, jokey dialogue and intrusive author lectures will lead many readers to tire of the whole business long before the evildoer receives his just and expected reward. Author tour. (Aug.)
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About the Author
W. E. B. Griffin is the author of six bestselling series: The Corps, Brotherhood of War, Badge of Honor, Men at War, Honor Bound, and Presidential Agent.
WILLIAM E. BUTTERWORTH IV
has been an editor and a writer for more than twenty-five years, and has worked closely with his father for several years on the editing of the Griffin books. He is the coauthor of The Saboteurs, The Double Agents, and Death and Honor.
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