Hardcover, 320 pages
English language
Published Jan. 22, 2008 by St. Martin's Minotaur.
At the City's Edge
by Marcus Sakey
1 star
(1 review)
Jason Palmer loved being a soldier. But after returning from Iraq with an "other than honourable" discharge, he's finding rebuilding his life the toughest battle yet.Elena Cruz is a talented cop, the first woman to make Chicago's prestigious Gang Intelligence Unit. She's ready for anything the job can throw at her.Until Jason's brother, a prominent communityt activist, is murdered in front of his own son.Now, stalked by brutal men with a shadowy agenda, Jason and Elena must unravel a conspiracy stretching from the darkest alleys of the ghetto to the manicured lawns of the city's power brokers. In a world where corruption and violence are simply the cost of doing business, two damaged people are all that stand between an innocent child – and the killers who will stop at nothing to find him.
Subjects
- Crime & mystery
- Mystery And Suspense Fiction
- Fiction
- Fiction - Mystery/ Detective
- Mystery/Suspense
- Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled
- Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled
- Inner cities
- Iraq War, 2003
- Revenge
- Veterans