A Murder of Honor

The author's first mystery

From Publisher:

When Father Robert O'Brien, a street-smart priest whose tough-love halfway house made him a savior to Washington's lost souls, is killed in a drive-by shooting, homicide detectives Frank Kearney and Jose Phelps are handed the case. It's no gift: Drive-bys, usually motiveless, are rarely solved, and with the media breathing down the necks of both police and politicians, it's not a case that is going to go away quickly. But what seemed to be a run-of-the-mill drive-by of a very public figure in a city with one of the nation's highest homicide rates soon turns into a far dirtier, far more complex case involving corrupt politicians, warring drug gangs, manipulative media, millions of dollars in questionable cash -- and more murder. Worse still, the accumulating evidence seems to point inescapably to the conclusion that Father O'Brien was at the center of a highly illegal operation. As Kearney and Phelps work their way through the puzzle, fighting police bureaucracy and local politicos, it becomes increasingly clear that this case might cost them more than their careers -- it might cost them their lives.

Product Info

ISBN: 0399146849

ISBN-13: 9780399146848

Publisher: Putnam

Year: 2001

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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