Fatal Command Author:Joseph D. McNamara When Joe McNamara takes you inside a police department, or inside the mind of a working cop, you know that this is how it really works. Because McNamara has been there -- as a New York City patrolman and deputy inspector, as Kansas City police chief, and now as chief of police of one of America's fastest growing major cities, San Jose, Californi... more »a.
McNamara's highly acclaimed best-seller, THE FIRST DIRECTIVE, introduced a maverick cop named Fraleigh, whose unorthodox methods don't endear him to politicians inside or outside the police department. In FATAL COMMAND, Fraleigh has a new job. His old friend Louis Robinson has just been appointment chief of police of Silicon City, and he wants Fraleigh as his chief of detectives. It's a dream job in a rich, high-tech, newly incorporated boomtown. No political machine. No graft. No red tape.
No such luck. Within days, Fraleigh's been caught in the middle of a machine gun shoot-out. He's found out the mayor snorts coke the way other politicians eat jellybeans. And he thinks he's falling in love with a woman he met in a male strip joint. Fraleigh is in so deep it's going to take all his best moves to survive the deadly web of corruption he's uncovered -- including high level industrial espionage, the CIA, the FBI, and too many cops and politicians who have been seduced by money, power and sex.« less