Detektiv Bettinger je slušný, hodný chlap a milující otec a manžel, který doufá, že už to v té své prosluněné Arizoně nějak doklepe do důchodu. Jenže ouha. Když někdo po konzultaci s vámi spáchá sebevraždu (a navíc je to příbuzný místního politika), nezbývá vám moc šancí, jak se vyhnout vyhazovu a dožít se vysněného důchodu. Proto se … Pokračovat ve čtení S. Craig Zahler – špinavý kšefty na[...]
ANOTACE: VÍTEJTE VE MĚSTĚ VICTORY! MÍSTNÍ ATRAKCE: SVINSKÁ KOSA, CHCÍPLÍ FÓGLOVÉ, ZAMORDOVANÍ POLICAJTI A DVA (NE)OHROŽENÍ DRSŇÁCI S ODZNAKEM… Po krátké, nepříliš zdvořilé konverzaci s detektivem Julesem Bettingerem spáchá jeden rozrušený obchodník sebevraždu. Kvůli tomuto incidentu je nelaskavý (i když mnohokrát vyznamenaný) policista přeložen a musí se i s rodinou přestěhovat z Arizony na[...]
A distraught businessman kills himself after a short, impolite conversation with a detective named Jules Bettinger. Because of this incident, the unkind (but decorated) policeman is forced to relocate himself and his family from Arizona to the frigid north,… ...
A distraught businessman kills himself after a short, impolite conversation with a detective named Jules Bettinger. Because of this incident, the unkind (but decorated) policeman is forced to relocate himself and his family from Arizona to the frigid north, where he will work for an understaffed precinct in Victory, Missouri. This collapsed rustbelt city is a dying beast that devours itself and its inhabitants...and has done so for more than four decades. Its streets are covered with dead pigeons and there are seven hundred criminals for every law enforcer.
Partnered with a boorish and demoted corporal, Bettinger investigates a double homicide in which two policemen were slain and mutilated. The detective looks for answers in the fringes of the city and also in the pasts of the cops with whom he works--men who stomped on a local drug dealer until he was disabled.
Bettinger soon begins to suspect that the double homicide is not an isolated event, but a prelude to a series of cop executions...
