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Calumet City

Charlie Newton

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#5603 of 8,085 books · #1887 in Crime & Thriller

Shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger (2009).

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.

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Publisher
Simon and Schuster
ISBN-13
9781416533221
Topics
Police corruptionChildhood trauma and abuseBuried secrets

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