First Directive Author:Joseph D. McNamara The First Directive is intense drama: a taut, authentic first novel set in the starkly contrasting worlds of California's "Silicon Valley" computer fortunes and festering ghettos. — Out in Silicon Valley the microchips grow as quietly as the piles of money being made by the high-tech new rich. And Adolph Stone is as rich as any of them. He's also... more » a slumlord and a friend of the lieutenant governor. So when his beautiful 16-year-old daughter is missing, Sergeant Fraleigh of the homicide squad and his team are called into action.
The events that unfold in this tense and relentlessly suspenseful novel are worse than any nightmare. Fraleigh finds himself ensnarled in a network of relationships built on dirty money and dirty secrets, a network that reaches to the top at the state capitol and deep inside Fraleigh's own police department. Filled with the sights and colors of Northern California, this enthralling story is punctuated with sudden violence and a complex and deadly love affair.« less