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289 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Summary |
Does your past define you forever? That's the question LAPD homicide detective Niels Madsen must answer after he gets in the middle of a standoff between two uniformed officers and Cisco, an intellectually disabled man. Cisco is found armed and standing over the body of a man with Down syndrome. Cisco swears the dead man was his good friend, and he didn't hurt him, but in his earlier life, Cisco had been gang member, a brilliant and brutal killer. After he was badly beaten, brain injuries left him--if he is to be believed--with the intellectual intelligence of a child. Madsen's search for the truth leads him through the special needs community, East LA gang life, and pits him up against the corrupt LA Sheriff's Department. More than a police procedural, Tricky explores questions of human nature: Whether a man can change, for better or worse, and whether redemption is possible. |
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Police -- California -- Los Angeles -- Fiction.
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Murder -- Investigation -- California -- Los Angeles -- Fiction.
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People with mental disabilities -- Fiction.
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Ex-gang members -- Fiction.
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Police corruption -- Fiction.
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Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction.
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Detective and mystery stories.
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Suspense fiction.
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Thrillers (Fiction) Fiction.
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| ISBN |
9781951709198 (paperback) |
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1951709195 (paperback) |
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