"J.F. Freedman brings to life a world where cops and criminals commit acts of cowardice and courage, where the bad - and the good - betray each other. As Luke pieces together what really happened to Reynaldo Juarez and why, he must sift through the public ambitions and private vendettas, explosive secrets and hidden relationships between men and women on both sides of the law - to expose the lies that can damn the innocent, and free the guilty."--BOOK...

"In the past three months, three brutal murders were committed in the ritzy area of west Los Angeles--each one on the night of the full moon. Lt. Luis Cordova is heading a special undercover task force in search of the killer before he can strike again. And he finds him! Roberto Salazar, a gardener working in the wealthy neighborhood, is idling in his truck waiting for the work day to begin when the police search his truck and find a startling piece...

In a novel that races along like a hot desert wind, Freedman unleashes "one of the most extravagantly entertaining thrillers of the year" (Kirkus). Justice is blind--especially for criminal attorney Will Alexander who's trying the most hopeless case of his career. Convinced that his two motorcycle gang member-clients are innocent of murder, Will now must prove it to a ruthless D.A., a doubting judge, and a hostile jury.

After growing up in a hardscrabble Maryland town, a teenage boy will stop at nothing to pursue his dream It's 1957, and fifteen-year-old Roy Poole has again been awakened by the nightly argument between his mother, his sister, and his hard-drinking father. Roy sneaks away after the old man passes out, and hitches a ride to the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, to use its brutal obstacle course, which he can run better than most midshipmen. Whenever he's...

Fritz Tullis witnesses the murder of a foreign diplomat on the property of his neighbor, a State Department official with ties to the CIA, and joins the investigation to uncover the truth about a deadly government conspiracy.