Deadly assets
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Badge of honor volume 12
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English
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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 ahead to do what he does best—his job. He’s been investigating the murder of a young family. A reporter, working on an illicit drug series for Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Mickey O’Hara, has been killed with his wife and child, a note stapled to his chest warning that the drug stories are to stop. Period. While Payne knows that he, like his pal O’Hara, cannot back down, he also knows that they damn sure could be among the next to die. . . .
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Contributors
Butterworth, William E. author., aut
ISBN
9780399171178
9781410471178
9781410471178
Subjects
Subjects
Civilian review boards (Police administration) -- Fiction
Drug traffic -- Fiction
Investigative reporting -- Fiction
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
Payne, Matt (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Fiction
Philadelphia (Pa.). -- Police Department -- Fiction
Police -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Fiction
Police shootings -- Fiction
Drug traffic -- Fiction
Investigative reporting -- Fiction
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
Payne, Matt (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Fiction
Philadelphia (Pa.). -- Police Department -- Fiction
Police -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Fiction
Police shootings -- Fiction
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Published Reviews
Publisher's Weekly Review
At the start of Griffin's gripping 12th Badge of Honor novel (after 2013's The Last Witness), the fourth to be coauthored with son Butterworth, Sgt. Matt Payne of the Philadelphia PD visits a North Philly diner, the workplace of Daquan Williams, a good kid who's on parole and trying to go straight. Payne hopes Daquan might have information about a recent drive-by shooting, but their conversation is interrupted by the arrival of two armed teenagers, one of whom fires three shots before Payne stops him with a bullet to the chest. Meanwhile, as the end of the year approaches, a series of murders raises the annual death toll on Philadelphia streets to 362. The Rev. Josiah Cross, an ex-con who served time for assault and forgery, is leading protests over the killings in "Killadelphia"; Cross's campaign includes a poster of Payne at a crime scene with the caption Public Enemy #1. Payne and his cohorts face long odds in a gritty police series that provides sociological comment but no easy answers. Agent: Robert Youdelman, Rember & Curtis. (Aug.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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Even as 27-year-old homicide sergeant Matt Payne investigates the murder of a reporter, he's accused of murdering the head of Philadelphia's Citizens Oversight Committee, which had been investigating shootings by police—with Payne a particular target.
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Even as 27-year-old homicide sergeant Matt Payne investigates the murder of a reporter, he's accused of murdering the head of Philadelphia's Citizens Oversight Committee, which had been investigating shootings by police—with Payne a particular target. Pushed back from August; Griffin knows his Philadelphia police stuff.
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Publishers Weekly Reviews
At the start of Griffin's gripping 12th Badge of Honor novel (after 2013's The Last Witness), the fourth to be coauthored with son Butterworth, Sgt. Matt Payne of the Philadelphia PD visits a North Philly diner, the workplace of Daquan Williams, a good kid who's on parole and trying to go straight. Payne hopes Daquan might have information about a recent drive-by shooting, but their conversation is interrupted by the arrival of two armed teenagers, one of whom fires three shots before Payne stops him with a bullet to the chest. Meanwhile, as the end of the year approaches, a series of murders raises the annual death toll on Philadelphia streets to 362. The Rev. Josiah Cross, an ex-con who served time for assault and forgery, is leading protests over the killings in "Killadelphia"; Cross's campaign includes a poster of Payne at a crime scene with the caption Public Enemy #1. Payne and his cohorts face long odds in a gritty police series that provides sociological comment but no easy answers. Agent: Robert Youdelman, Rember & Curtis. (Aug.)
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