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Detective Mary Joe Court sleeps with a shotgun beside her bed and a lovable bull mastiff at her feet. For the past 12 years, she’s hidden from a nightmarish past, but with every passing day, her scars fade, and her heart grows lighter. Now, for the first time in her life, she looks forward to her future. She’s happy. Then she finds the body. Someone shot the victim in her chest and left her to die in a cheap motel. Joe knew her well. She grew up with her. They were sisters, of a sort.

Fresh off the drama several months ago that included a shootout at Rosslyn Station, the last Metro stop in Virginia, and a conflagration at the Federal Courthouse in Washington, D.C., Fairfax County Detective Sergeant Kiki Diaz is leaving an interview in McLean, Virginia when she hears a news report that Virginia Governor Edwin Mills has been assassinated at his Fairfax Station home. She immediately heads to the scene - and as a newest detective assigned to the Robbery-Homicide squad - she’s got the ticket on this one.

Inspector Duke Becker and the Special Investigations Unit, Homicide, are down one man - Bobby Green is now on a medical retirement and working as a private investigator. He and Michelle Goldman can now have a real relationship, and things are looking up until a frightened conductor comes to see Green.

What would you do if you had been falsely imprisoned? What would you do if while in prison your wife and your children had been brutally murdered and no one cared? For Samuel Maxwell, the decision was easy. He would spend his time in prison learning everything he could to carry out his plan for revenge. Duke Becker is called to Police Chief Rockwell's office because a letter of prophetic murder has come true, and the Chief is sure that more will follow, including one meant for him.

Two police officers have been brutally killed by having their throats ripped out, but the wound appears to have been done with surgical precision. With no witnesses, no forensic evidence, and two bizarre clues to follow, the case falls to Inspector Duke Becker, head of the high profile Special Investigations Unit, Homicide. Becker and his squad must find the killer before more cops are murdered. The case will lead Becker on a wild chase through the streets of New York City, back over 15 years into the past and to a cover-up that will rock City Hall.