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    On the Grind
    On the Grind
    On the Grind
    Audiobook7 hours

    On the Grind

    Written by Stephen J Cannell

    Narrated by Scott Brick

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    About this audiobook

    On the heels of Three Shirt Deal, a New York Times bestseller, comes an electrifying new thriller from Stephen J. Cannell in which Lt. Shane Scully is accused of evidence tampering and his wife, Alexa, discovers Shane's been having an affair with a beautiful movie star.

    Charged with felony misconduct in a high-profile solicitation of murder case, Lieutenant Scully is faced with an impossible decision: either quietly resign from his job as a detective for the LAPD, the work he loves, or face criminal prosecution.Rather than smear the department's reputation and his own, Scully chooses to leave. His colleagues of years feel betrayed to learn that a dirty cop has been in their midst. His wife, Alexa, the chief of detectives, leaves him, seeking a divorce for his dalliance with the accused in the case, a beautiful, well-known Hollywood actress.His son, Chooch, horrified by these events, won't even speak to him.Life as Scully knows it is over. Or so it seems . . .

    In order to make a living the only way he knows how, Shane seeks employment from a police department that has been known to hire rejects from other departments: the Haven Park PD.Haven Park is an incorporated city near downtown Los Angeles, just one square mile in size and populated almost entirely by Mexican immigrants, most of them illegal. The department is a hotbed of corruption, in effect the personal goon squad and collection agency of the town's mayor, Cecil Bratano.Ushered into the department by his new partner, Alonzo Bell, Shane takes his lessons in policing from one of the dirtiest cops around.

    But things in L.A. are hardly ever what they seem.Relentlessly harassed by an over-zealous FBI agent, the alluring Ophelia Love, and under the constant, violent, and hyper-paranoid scrutiny of his new comrades-at-arms, Shane finds himself in snare a far greater than any he could have expected. His estranged wife may be the only one who can get Shane out of this mess alive.The question is: Is she willing to do so?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJan 6, 2009
    ISBN9781423326748
    On the Grind
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    Stephen J Cannell

    In his thirty-five-year career, Emmy Award-winning writer Stephen J. Cannell has created more than forty TV series. Among his hits are The Rockford Files, Silk Stalkings, The A-Team, 21 Jump Street, Hunter, Renegade, Wiseguy, and The Commish. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and children.

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    • 1/5
      Accused of evidence tampering and having an affair with a movie starlet, Shane Scully is fired by the LA police department and estranged from his wife. The only police department that will hire him is the City of Haven Park, widely regarded as a hotbed of corruption. I have read numerous of Stephen J. Cannell's novels including some featuring Shane Scully. The novel preceding this in the Scully series, Three Shirt Deal, is very good so I had every reason to expect a fast-paced, interesting read. Wrong! This is one of the most boring books I have read in a long time. The plot is completely predictable and plodding. Even the "exciting" conclusion is boring. I suppose I will give the next Scully novel a chance—Cannell has built up that much credit with me— but if it begins like this one I doubt I will stick with it past the first 50 pages.
    • 4/5
      Charged with a felony misconduct in a high-profile solicitation of murder case, Scully is faced with an impossible decision; either quietly resign from a detective for the LAPD or face criminal prosecution, Scully chooses to leave. Scully goes undercover within the Haven Park PD, just one square mile in size and populated almost entirely by Mexican immigrants, most of them illegal, the department is a hotbed of corruption.