Behind the Shield Author:Jack Mullen Sgt. Vince Dowling drinks too much and works too hard. — Yet he's San Diego's best homicide detective -- a man of rare instinct and cunning, a man walking the razor's edge. — Once he swore to put his family before everything else. But he has a team to run, another friend to bury ... and a chilling white-collar psycho on the loose who has just grad... more »uated from multiple rape to murder. It's a case that demands total obsession. And there's nowhere for a good cop to run but deeper into the long, dark tunnel of 'the job' -- in search of the one hard fact that will bring down a killer ... before it brings down Vince Dowling.« less