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Also by Charlie Newton:

Traitor's Gate, May 2015
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Calumet City, March 2008
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Calumet City
Charlie Newton

Touchstone
March 2008
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Featuring: Patti Black
400 pages
ISBN: 1416533222
EAN: 9781416533221
Paperback
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Mystery Hard Boiled | Mystery Woman Sleuth | Thriller

Meet Patti Black, the most decorated cop in Chicago. On her ghetto beat, Patti Black redefines the word badass. But her steel-plated exterior -- solitary, stoic, loveless -- belies the wrenching legacy of her orphan childhood. Haunted by the horrifying abuse she suffered at the hands of her foster parents, Patti Black sublimates past torments into a meticulously maintained tough-gal persona.

When a series of unrelated cases -- a drug bust gone bad, a mayoral assassination attempt, the murder of a state attorney, the exhumation of a long-concealed body from a tenement basement wall -- all point in Patti Black's direction, she finds herself facing the dark truth: You can't hide from your history, no matter how far into the fog you run. For Patti Black, that history didn't die in the tenement wall; it's alive -- and riding her down.

In researching this electrifying thriller, Charlie Newton rode in the squad car with real-life street cop Patti Black. The result is a powerful fiction debut that captures the precise emotional landscape of one cop's hard-bitten life in the trenches. This first-time author joins that rare breed whose fiction is suffused with profound authenticity.

Comments

4 comments posted.

Re: Calumet City

this story sounds like its right up my ally.
(Ann w 2:11pm July 1, 2009)

This is my kind of read. Love mysteries and thrillers!
(JoAnn White 2:40pm July 1, 2009)

If Lee Child recomends it I definately have to read.
(Annetta Stolpmann 3:04pm July 1, 2009)

Sounds great. Nothing beats first hand
experience.
(Patricia Barraclough 9:23pm July 1, 2009)