Item #12204 On the Grind SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Stephen J. Cannell.
On the Grind SIGNED FIRST EDITION

On the Grind SIGNED FIRST EDITION

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2009.

First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author in ink at title page. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". 306pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket encased in protective archival sleeve. Mild creasing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Rubbing and gentle bumps to corners and edges of black paper over boards. Boards are slightly warped. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound.

ABOUT THIS BOOK:
Charged with felony misconduct in a high profile solicitation of murder case, Lt. Scully is faced with an impossible decision: either quietly resign from his job as a detective for the LAPD, the work he loves or face criminal prosecution. Rather than smear the departments reputation and his own, Scully chooses to leave. Scully s colleagues of years feel betrayed to learn that a dirty cop had been in their midst. His wife Alexa, the Chief of Detectives, leaves him, seeking out a divorce for his dalliance with the accused in the case, a beautiful, well-known Hollywood actress. His son, Chooch, horrified by these events, won t even speak to him. Life as Scully knows it is over. Or so it seems

In order to make a living the only way he knows how, Shane seeks employment from a police department that has been known to hire rejects from other departments: the Haven Park PD. Haven Park is an incorporated city near downtown LA, just one square mile in size and populated almost entirely by Mexican immigrants, most of them illegal. The department is a hotbed of corruption, in effect the personal goon squad and collection agency of the town s mayor, Cecil Bratano. Ushered into the department by his new partner, Alonzo Bell, Shane takes his lessons in policing from one of the dirtiest cops around.

But in Stephen J. Cannell's On the Grind, things in LA are hardly ever what they seem. Relentlessly harassed by an over-zealous FBI agent, the alluring Ophelia Love, and under the constant, violent, and hyper-paranoid scrutiny of his new comrades-at-arms, Shane finds himself in snare far greater than any he could have expected. His estranged wife Alexa may be the only one who can get Shane out of this mess alive. The question is: Is she willing to?(Publisher). Good + / Good +. Item #12204
ISBN: 9780312366285

Price: $30.00

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