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. ( )

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. ( )

GOOD

I read this for the Just For Fun Challenge which encourages reading one book that has been on the TBR shelf for a long time and without doing a review. I still rated this book though and I loved it. ( )