Fatal Command

FROM THE QUIET LIFE TO THE KILLING GROUNDThat morning Fraleigh, the high-tech boomtownsunorthodox new chief of detectives, had supervised aquiet stakeout. Now the mayors aide had beengunned down, and an innocent young woman wasnear death. There were indeed peculiar things goingon in Silicon City. But the temptation of hard drugs, hot gold, orsomething even more priceless could explaineverything. Power and greed were makingsuspiciously strange bedfellows out of certain localcops, politicos, and mob members. And thatthreatened to put a lot of people to sleeppermanently.