Guardian Angel

Detroit, Christmas Eve. Kaz Stefanek — a quiet, slightly bumbling detective working cold cases at the back of the precinct, an Iraq veteran counting down to retirement — takes a holiday shift for a sick colleague. First call of the night: a woman's body in an alley. No tracks. No visible cause of death. On the victim's jacket — a small pin. Black circle, white arrow.As more victims appear with the same symbol, Kaz begins to understand that he's investigating a killer he can't find. Because the killer is himself.Guardian Angel is the story of a man who for twenty years was an unconscious instrument of a secret military program — designed to create soldiers who kill automatically in response to an external trigger. Kaz came home from the war, found a job on the force, tried to stay out of everyone's way. He didn't know his quiet life was just a cover — or that every victim had been carrying the symbol that was his order to act.Told in the first person as a recorded confession made on the last night of his life, this novel asks a question that won't let go: what remains of a person when the system has treated them as raw material all along?