Shooter

A wet, dark December evening, and another kid lies dead in the shadows. To the newspapers this is just one more incident in a countless stream of street shootings, but Stan Kochinski's instinct tells him there is much more to it. The homicide detective can have no idea just how much more...Kochiniski never planned to be a cop. He once seemed set to become a baseball star, but fate had another plan for him. Twenty years after losing his promising sports career to a tragic mistake, he patrols a nightmare city where evil hangs heavy like a thick dark curtain. A city where there can be no winners.And now Kochinski finds himself sucked into the most sinister and violent case of his life, up against a ruthless superior ready to cap his career with a plan as audacious as it is cynical. While Stan carefully feels his way through the minefield that surrounds his every step, he senses a conspiracy extending upwards to the whole of Detroit's governing elite. Little does he suspect that a beautiful woman with a haunted past could prove to be the greatest danger of all.Form the despair and degradation of the mean streets to the luxury of the Mayor's office, this outstanding first novel constructs a grittily realistic backdrop to a chilling narrative filled with razor-sharp detail and psychological suspense. Award-winning journalist Eric Kinkopf uses his reporter's intuition, superb sense of story, and his intimate knowledge of America's cities to give us a Detroit as morally complex as Scott Turow's Chicago.