Forced out of the "Los Angeles Times" amid the latest budget cuts, newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to go out with a bang, using his final days at the paperto write the definitive murder story of his career.
He focuses on Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer in jail after confessing to a brutal murder. But as he delves into the story, Jack realizes that Winslow's so-called confession is bogus. The kid might actually be innocent.
Jack is soon running with his biggest story since The Poet""made his career years ago. He is tracking a killer who operates completely below police radar--and with perfect knowledge of any move against him. Including Jack's.
- ISBN10 0316166308
- ISBN13 9780316166300
- Publish Date 2 June 2009 (first published 1 January 2009)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Little, Brown & Company
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 419
- Language English