I, Max Royster, fat, broke, divorced, thrown off the NYPD for mental illness. Now in Flatbush, Brooklyn, I find new love, new murder and new career. Can I keep my love? Crack the case? Can I inspire and change private security? And maybe regain my NYPD shield?

I, Max Royster, ex-NYPD cop, cashiered "for mental disease or defect", am changing.
I want to marry and stay in one place.
Cooper, my new love, lives in Flatbush, Brooklyn, a neighborhood that used to be the boroughs jewel. The Brooklyn Dodgers and Jackie Robinson played ball there.
Back then, nobody in Flatbush...