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Being among the most self-assured and sharply crafted debuts in recent years, Calumet City detonates a Molotov cocktail of character-driven suspense and ghetto-Chicago intrigue.
Meet Patti Dark, the most decorated cop in Chicago. On her ghetto beat, Patti Dark redefines the word badass. But her steel-plated outdoor - solitary, stoic, loveless - belies the wrenching legacy of her orphaned youth. Haunted by the horrifying mistreatment she suffered as a result of her foster parents, Patti Dark sublimates past torments into a meticulously preserved tough-gal persona.Whenever a group of unrelated cases - a medication bust ended up bad, a mayoral assassination attempt, the murder of circumstances law firm, the exhumation of your long-concealed body from a tenement basement wall structure -- all point in Patti Black's path, she locates herself facing the dark fact: You can't conceal from your record, no matter how far into the fog you run. For Patti Dark, that record didn't pass away in the tenement wall structure; it's alive -- and riding her down.In researching this electrifying thriller, Charlie Newton rode in the squad car with real-life block cop Patti Dark. The effect is a robust fiction debut that catches the precise mental landscape of one cop's hard-bitten life in the trenches. This first-time writer joins that rare breed whose fiction is suffused with serious authenticity
