Lethal Rage

First in the gritty police series: "In the mold of Joseph Wambaugh . . . Characters that transcend cop-show stereotypes" (Booklist).   Jack Warren, a young officer who's been working in a virtually crime-free area, is now moving into Toronto's notorious 51 Division. Suddenly, he's entered a dangerous downtown world where drugs and prostitution are rampant--and he's immediately thrown into a brutal war against a dealer intent on taking over...
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First in the gritty police series: "In the mold of Joseph Wambaugh . . . Characters that transcend cop-show stereotypes" (Booklist).
 
Jack Warren, a young officer who's been working in a virtually crime-free area, is now moving into Toronto's notorious 51 Division. Suddenly, he's entered a dangerous downtown world where drugs and prostitution are rampant--and he's immediately thrown into a brutal war against a dealer intent on taking over the city's trade.
 
Warren soon discovers that no one is safe from the dealer's quest for domination when the war turns horrifically personal. Working with the division's elite major-crime unit, Warren learns there is an imperceptible yet enormous difference between the law and justice--and being a police officer and surviving in the 51.
 
"Canadian policeman Pilkey writes from firsthand experience in his gritty procedural debut . . . Charts the stresses the dangerous job puts on Jack's marriage, the us-against-them mentality that binds patrol cops, the off-duty cop parties to blow off steam, and the way the 51 can change good cops to bad." --Publishers Weekly
 
"Loaded with insider info and a cop's-eye view of the city. Devotees of urban cop tales will eat this up." --The Globe and Mail (Toronto)