title: Nowhere to Run: The Killing of Constable Dennis Strongquill
author: Mike McIntyre
description: "McIntyre provides a riveting but also poignant account of Strongquills murder and its aftermath. McIntyre is an excellent reporter who managed to gather an incredible amount of detail about all the main characters in the tragic saga and, as a result, his nonfiction account reads like a novel."  FFWD Magazine
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  DOWN AMONGST THE DEAD MEN
  
  > Steve Lyons
  
  The city had been lost a long time ago.
  
  Its defenders, however, were still fighting to hold the ruins. Even though
  they knew – even though they always knew – their cause to be hopeless.
  
  A young trooper crouched inside a half-demolished, brick-built turret.
  
  He held the butt of a lasgun to his shoulder. Through its sights, he surveyed
  the toxic landscape that stretched out before him.
  
  A ragged, wheezing wind swirled about the trooper’s shoulders, ashes dancing
  in its eddies. He could feel its sting even through his 