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Title: Edgar Winning Police Procedural
Review: Police corruption is a subject all South Floridiansare familiar. In the early 1980s a vast police drug rip-off collapsed when three dead drug guards were fished from the Miami River. Cops had forced them to jump into the river while they swiped the coke, never bothering to ascertain who could swim.Scotland's Detective Inspector John Rebus is sent undercover to infiltrate a gang of rogue cops. All are assigned to a retraining program for police, where their assignment may uncover Rebus's own culpability in a crime. Slowly, fearfully Rebus connects the dots between the areas latest murder, an imposing crime boss, and an unsolved cold case.This book won an Edgar in spite of its dense regionalism. It is however a carefully plotted tale of mystery and pursuit by a policeman whose own haunting guilt fails to dissuade him from his duty.
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