The dramatic "New York Times" bestselling adventure in W. E. B. Griffin s Badge of Honor series about the Philadelphia police force.
In Philadelphia already suffering among the country s worst murder rates homicide is at an all-time high. With each violent crime, tension builds between the police department, the mayor s office, and the Citizens Oversight Committee. The most vocal activist, reformed drug dealer Reverend Josiah Cross, places the blame, and with it a target, squarely on the back of twenty-seven-year-old homicide sergeant Matt Payne. Now Payne must navigate death threats and misdirected public outrage to follow a strange pattern of seemingly unrelated killings. If he can t find his way through, it could spell an end to his reputation, his work and maybe even his life."