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Like No Country for Old Men and Snow Falling on Cedars, a haunting, suspenseful, and dazzlingly written book of secrets, corruption, tragedy, and vengeance from the author of Crazy Center - the foundation of this year's 2009 Academy Award-winning film - an electrifying offense drama and internal thriller when a young cop becomes the center point for a community's grief and rage in the aftermath of the tragic accident. Out on a rural highway on a cold, icy evening, Patrolman Ronny Forbert sits in his cruiser, aiming to keep warm and make time go away until his move ends. A familiar beater Jeep Cherokee comes speeding more than a hill, forcing the rookie cop to run after after it. The drivers is his old good friend transformed nemesis Matt Laferiere, the rogue kid of a guy as beaten down as the town itself. Within minutes what commences as a clear-cut arrest for dui spirals out of control into a warmed discussion between two young men with a stressed past and leads to a fatal hit and run on an icy stretch out of blacktop. As the news spreads around town, Police Chief Gordy Hawkins remains sure that Ronny Forbert adopted the rules, at least most of them, and he's prepared to the stand by position the young cop. But a few manipulative people around see opportunity in the tragedy. As uneasy human relationships, dark secrets, and old grievances reveal themselves, the folks of this small, firmly woven community decide a crime must have been committed, and someone - Official Ronny Forbert - must pay a cost, a decision that will maintain devastating consequences for them all.