Fatal Command — Joseph D. McNamara

FROM THE QUIET LIFE TO THE KILLING GROUND

That morning Fraleigh, the high-tech boomtowns
unorthodox new chief of detectives, had supervised a
quiet stakeout. Now the mayors aide had been
gunned down, and an innocent young woman was
near death. There were indeed peculiar things going
on in Silicon City.

But the temptation of hard drugs, hot gold, or
something even more priceless could explain
everything. Power and greed were making
suspiciously strange bedfellows out of certain local
cops, politicos, and mob members. And that
threatened to put a lot of people to sleep
permanently.