This is the story of Frank Coyle, a veteran police officer who never meets his monthly quota of traffic tickets, has never fired his service weapon, and who believes that putting anyone but violent criminals in jail is cruel and unusual punishment. He has compiled the lowest arrest record of any of his fellow officers, and yet he has imposed a lasting peace on the most violent, crime ridden area of his city. He has very unorthodox views of how the law should be upheld, and those who violate his rules are eventually cured of their lawless ways-permanently.

In this collection of short stories, A hardened, cynical man from Brooklyn finds compassion and love in a McDonalds in Nogales, Arizona. An adventurer relaxing along a picturesque stream witnesses an amazing act of will. A harried businessman learns peace and the value of being still from a master and repays him with mobility. A detective inadvertently solves a decades-old crime that rocked a city. A middle-aged lothario, offered a chance to avoid embarrassing himself with a much-younger woman, takes it, and in doing so, impresses her more than he had thought possible. A young man learns...