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Coleridge Taylor is searching for his next scoop on the police whip. The Messenger-Telegram reporter has a lot to choose from on the crime-ridden avenues of New York City in 1975. One story outside his whip is grabbing all leading page glory: New York teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, and President Ford just told the city, as the Daily Reports so aptly places it, "drop dead". Taylor's situation is practically as desperate. His home is a lent dry-docked houseboat, his publication may also be on the way out, and his drunk father keeps getting caught. A source transmits Taylor right down to Alphabet City, where he discovers two dead systems: a punk known as Johnny Mort and a cop known as Robert Dodd. Each looks too messed up to have wiped out the other, so Taylor begins requesting around. The punk was a good child, the peace-loving guardian angel of the neighborhood's stray pups. What led him to mug a woman at gunpoint? And just why is official Samantha Callahan being accused of departing her spouse to pass away, even though she insists the police radio misled her? It's hard enough being a woman in the NYPD only five years after women were designated to patrol, and today the department wishes to throw her to the wolves. That's not going to occur - not if Taylor can help it. As he comes for Samantha - a lovely, dedicated second-generation cop - he realizes he's too near to his story. Officer Callahan is a target, and Taylor is standing up between her and some mighty big weapons.
