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#	Date	Publisher	Binding	Cover
1	2009-08-04	Putnam

Blurb:: Homicide Sergeant Matthew Payne is used to murder, but lately there's been an awful lot of it in Philadelphia. A gangland shooting in a popular tourist location leaves two dead and many others injured, most of them innocent bystanders; a motel room blows up, killing two and severely injuring two more; and the body of a headless Latina turns up in the Schuylkill River.

Everybody assumes the deaths are not related, but Payne can't shake the hunch that there's something more to it -- and that hunch leads his thoughts far from the City of Brotherly Love, to the Texas-Mexico border, in the person of a long, lean Texas Ranger who's come to Philadelphia tracking a particularly nasty murderer with Mexican cartel connections. His gang is trafficking in guns and drugs and human lives, and they don't care how many of the latter they waste to sell the former -- after all, to them lives are cheap.

Filled with authentic color and detail from the Wild West of the Texas border to the quiet corridors of Philadelphia's East Coast elite, this is a riveting novel of the men and women who put their lives on the line, from the cop on the beat to the commissioner himself.

It's a story of fears and dangers, courage and loyalty, genuine heroism and love -- storytelling at its absolute best.