Deadly Assets
- ISBN-10
- 0515155446
- ISBN-13
- 9780515155440
- Series
- Deadly Assets
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 416
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-06
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- W.E.B. Griffin
Description
"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"--
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