Sudden Impact

ISBN-13: 9781620454664 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 450 str.

William Wood

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Bestselling author William Wood spins this dark, riveting tale of a beloved Sacramento cop killed in a bizarre accident, and the hunt to track down his killer a fast-paced thriller of murder, deceit, haunting pasts, and one man s dangerous scheme to fight for those he loves.

Officer Tommy Ensor did not see the car that struck him down on a rainy night in California s capital.

Ensor is no ordinary cop. He s a hero, winner of the Medal of Valor, devoted family man and coach, helping at-risk kids. But the driver who struck him down and didn t stop isn t ordinary either. He s Judge Frank Stevenson, up-and-coming member of the bench, also devoted to his wife and daughter, involved in charities and good works. In a split second he did something completely uncharacteristic that irrevocably changes his life and the lives of everyone close to him.

Terry Nye is a couple of weeks from retirement as a detective, head of Major Crimes. He s trying to pack thirty years of bloody experiences and hard lessons into those two weeks for his new partner, Rose Tafoya. Rose is a young detective, smart, more than a little ambitious, but also insecure. Together she and Nye are a powerhouse team. He s determined to find Ensor s assailant and he s going to make sure Rose doesn t make the same mistakes he did, especially the unforgivable one that has come back to darkly haunt him after Ensor s accident.

The city is in turmoil when Ensor dies and the hunt for a cop killer rushes ahead relentlessly, moving from Nye and Tafoya to Stevenson and his wife. The guilty and innocent are sucked randomly into the intense, high-powered investigation. Nye and Rose face death in a shoot-out; a politician s sad, dirty secret is exposed; and ambitions threaten to destroy the investigation.

The hunters and the hunted know the stakes are life and death.

Frank Stevenson knows he s being hunted. Stevenson is both stunned because he didn t stop that rainy night and steeled to do whatever he has to do to avoid the hunters. Even if it means committing more crimes. He s not just protecting himself. He s fighting for those he loves.

Stevenson comes up with a brilliant scheme to throw Nye and Tafoya off the track. But even if it works, Stevenson is tormented wondering how he can sit in judgment on others now.

A final hard moment of reckoning arrives for the hunters and the hunted. Everyone will realize that their lives will change in the blink of an eye.
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