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It is in San Diego, the city of perpetual springtime, that newcomer Billy Considine puts aside guilt and the indecision of youth. Ahead are the seasons of a man's life. Ahead are four decades of tumult and adventure, pain and joy. Ahead is the maturing of America.It is 1958. Billy is a rookie San Diego cop.Alone and lonely, Billy begins writing letters to his older brother, Jerome, sharing his life on the streets. His life as a new man.The letters continue for thirty years. As Billy grows in writing skill, in understanding, in competence as a police officer, his letters become more polished and insightful. The letters follow Billy through the police academy, patrol work, courtship, life on the vice squad, marriage, promotion to homicide.Billy's journey takes him through the civil rights movement and race riots, the student revolts of the 1960s, the counterculture/anti-war 1970s, the dynamic growth of San Diego and of the American economy in the 1980s.Billy matures as America matures.It is not always a pretty process.
Jake Prescott is a respected LA cop, until the day he empties his Glock at his wife's killer in a detective squad room. A trial board quickly turns him into an ex-cop. An ex-cop with nowhere to hide.Las Vegas-the City of Chance, Babylon in the desert, a place with no clocks, first names only, glimmering day and night-offers him refuge. That is until fate curses him a second time as the shadow of another murder hangs over him. April Winters, a hauntingly attractive Las Vegas homicide detective, draws a thin line between fact and fantasy, as she pieces together a bloody multi-murder with Jake as a prime suspect. Hidden behind the glitter of Las Vegas, Jake Prescott struggles not only for innocence, but identity, fighting an unforgiving Blue Fraternity haunting him with a past he wants to forget...and a future filled with a deadly mix of both passion and fear.
A gritty police procedural written by a detective sergeant with the San Diego Police Department.
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