The Front

ISBN: 0399154183

Author: Cornwell, Patricia

Condition: New

When Patricia Cornwell introduced the quicksilver, cut-to-the-bone style and extraordinary cast of characters of At Risk, the result was electrifying.At Risk featured Massachusetts state investigator Win Garano, a shrewd man of mixed-race background and a not inconsiderable chip on his shoulder; D. A. Monique Lamont, a hard-charging woman with powerful ambitions and a troubling willingness to cut corners; and Garanos grandmother, who has certain unpredictable talents that you ignore at your peril.And in The Front, peril is what comes to them all. D. A. Lamont has a special job for Garano. As part of a new public relations campaign concerning the dangers of declining neighborhoods, shes sending him to Watertown to come up with a "drama," and she thinks she knows just the case that will serve. Garano is very skeptical, because he knows that Watertown is also the home base for a loose association of municipal police departments called the FRONT, set up so that they dont have to be so dependent on the state - much to Lamonts anger. He senses a much deeper agenda here - but he has no idea just how deep it goes. In the days that follow, hell find that Lamonts task, and the places it leads him, will resemble a house of mirrors - everywhere he turns, hes not quite sure if what hes seeing is true.