Deadly Assets

Zusatztext Praise for W. E. B. Griffin “...gripping... Payne and his cohorts face long odds in a gritty police series that provides sociological comment but no easy answers.” — Publishers Weekly “Griffin is one of those writers who sets his novel before you in short! fierce! stop-for-nothing scenes. Before you know it! you’ve gobbled it up. —The Philadelphia Inquirer Informationen zum Autor W. E. B. Griffin is the author of six bestselling series. William E. Butterworth IV has worked closely with his father for more than a decade! and is the coauthor of many books with him! most recently The Last Witness and Hazardous Duty . The dramatic new novel in the Philadelphia police saga by #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author W. E. B. Griffin. In Philadelphia--suffering among the country's highest murder rates--the tension between the Philadelphia Police Department and its Citizens Oversight Committee has long been reaching a boiling point. That turmoil turns from bad to worse shortly after the committee begins targeting police shootings--especially those of twenty-seven-year-old Homicide Sergeant Matt Payne, the "Wyatt Earp of the Main Line"--and then the committee's combative leader is found shot dead point-blank on the front porch of his run-down Philly row house. As chanting protesters fill the streets, the city threatens to erupt. Payne, among many others accused of being complicit in the leader's death, becomes quietly furious. He suspects there's something deeper behind it all, but what? Ordered to stay out of the line of fire, he struggles ahead to do what he does best--his job. He's been investigating the murder of a young family. A reporter, working on an illicit drug series for Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mickey O'Hara, has been killed with his wife and child, a note stapled to his chest warning that the drug stories are to stop. Period. While Payne knows that he, like his pal O'Hara, cannot back down, he also knows that they damn sure could be among the next to die. . . . (and William E. Butterworth IV) (and William E. Butterworth IV) (and William E. Butterworth IV) (and William E. Butterworth IV) (and William E. Butterworth IV) (and William E. Butterworth IV) (and William E. Butterworth IV) (and William E. Butterworth IV) (and William E. Butterworth IV) (and William E. Butterworth IV) (and William E. Butterworth IV) (and William E. Butterworth IV) (and William E. Butterworth IV) I Broad Street and Erie Avenue, North Philadelphia Monday, December 17, 8:45 P.M. Matt Payne impatiently squeezed past the small groups of passengers that had just gotten off the subway train cars of the Broad Street Line, and moved with purpose down the tiled concourse toward the exit. The muscular twenty-seven-year-old was six feet tall and a solid one-seventy-five. His chiseled face had a two-day scrub of beard. Behind black sunglasses, dark circles hung under sleep-deprived eyes. He wore a Philadelphia Eagles ball cap and a gray hooded sweatshirt with the red TEMPLE UNIVERSITY logotype. Concealed inside the waistband of his blue jeans, at the small of his back, was an Officer’s Model Colt .45 ACP semiautomatic pistol. And in his back pocket, in a black leather bifold holder, were his badge and the Philadelphia Police Department–issued card identifying him as a sergeant of the Homicide Unit. Taking the subway, which Payne had boarded at the City Hall station after paying the $2.25 fare, hadn’t been his first—or his second—choice. But considering his options at the time, it had seemed the fastest. And with leads in the killings all but dried up, he had no time to waste. After exiting the concourse, he took the steps, two at a time, up to street level, then started across the deep gray slush of ...

Product details

• Authors: William E. Butterworth, William E. Iv Butterworth, W. E. B. Griffin, W.E.B. Griffin
• Publisher: Penguin Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 05.08.2014, delayed
• EAN: 9780399171178
• ISBN: 978-0-399-17117-8
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Badge Of Honor; Badge Of Honor
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature