Fatal Command
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- $5.99
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Publisher Description
FROM THE QUIET LIFE TO THE KILLING GROUND
That morning Fraleigh, the high-tech boomtowns
unorthodox new chief of detectives, had supervised a
quiet stakeout. Now the mayors aide had been
gunned down, and an innocent young woman was
near death. There were indeed peculiar things going
on in Silicon City.
But the temptation of hard drugs, hot gold, or
something even more priceless could explain
everything. Power and greed were making
suspiciously strange bedfellows out of certain local
cops, politicos, and mob members. And that
threatened to put a lot of people to sleep
permanently.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Brand-new Silicon City is the locale of the sequel to McNamara's praised debut, The First Directive. Chief Robinson sets up the police department with the help of narrator Officer Fraleigh, "The Block'' Schuster and Paul English, the chief's men in the earlier story, Mayor Richardson of the wealthy California enclave lures Robinson into an affair with a notorious singer, which leaves Fraleigh and his partners on their own, fighting hired killers and tracing the roots of a vile conspiracy. The plot contains enough shootouts, stabbings and sexually deviant escapades, assiduously described by Fraleigh, for two thrillers. Diluting the Ossa-on-Pelion pileup, erudite English and his rough pal The Block indulge in comic bantering, welcome relief. McNamara is Chief of Police in San Jose, Calif. Major ad/promo; author tour.
