All Denny Malone wants to be is a good cop. He's the king of Manhattan North, a highly decorated NYPD detective sergeant and the real leader of "Da Force." Malone and his crew are an elite special unit given unrestricted authority to wage war on gangs, drugs, and guns. Every day and every night for the eighteen years, Malone has served on the front lines, witnessing the hurt, the dead, the victims, the perps. He's done whatever it takes to serve and protect in a city built by ambition and corruption, where no one is clean -- including Malone himself. He and his partners have stolen millions of dollars in drugs and cash in the wake of the biggest heroin bust in the city's history. Now Malone is being squeezed by the Feds and must walk the thin line between betraying his brothers and partners, the Job, his family, and the woman he loves; trying to survive while the city teeters on the brink of a racial conflagration that could destroy them all.-- Adapted from dust jacket.