Dale Hoagland

Throwdown Dale Hoagland

In book three the narcotic squad gets pulled into a series of investigations that challenge the lines of authority at the police department. The clean divisional structure gets blurred when narcs work a shift a week in patrol. The free-wheeling nature of the narc/gang squad unsettles the department administration. New case law is carved out, political feathers get ruffled and plenty of crooks get busted, but they also unearth several criminal conspiracies and one of them involves former officers who are arranging hits on criminals. It leads the squad members searching for solutions they can live with professionally and ethically. A roofie rape conspiracy and gang plot to knock over a grocery store collide with a law enforcement conspiracy to complicate the narc squad's job. Everyone involved begins to see the long arc of careers in a volatile profession. Rookies with little insight and skill become, through a long process of education and experience, survivors in the dangerous Darwinist world of the street and law enforcement politics, a place where luck and irony rule.