When a police detective delves into a troubled New York City precinct, a trail of blood and money leads him through drug-strangled streets and his own embattled chain of command. After months of silence, First Deputy Commissioner Suzanne Albrecht orders Lieutenant Matt Stuart, her one-time lover, to her office. She suspects a scandal is brewing on her watch that could destroy all her ambitions of becoming the city's first female commissioner. Matt is her only hope of nosing out the problem withouut blowing the lid off. As he gets closer to the truth, Matt finds himself caught between organized crime gangs and a woman who will stop at nothing to protect herself. (

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Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0451409183, Paperback)

An electrifying new thriller from The New York Times bestselling author, one of the originators of the big-city police novel

William J. Caunitz, the author of such classics as One Police Plaza and Exceptional Clearance, is back in bestselling form with his latest New York City cop thriller, Chains of Command. When a young police officer is shot and killed in his girlfriend's apartment in Washington Heights, investigators suspect that he had been taking money from the Dominican drug gangs that rule the neighborhood. An ambitious female deputy police commissioner and a daring detective lieutenant go up against the forces of greed, rivalry, and long-buried secrets to protect the ones they love and solve the crime of their careers. These two cops are the best of the true blue, brave, and loyal.

* Caunitz's first four novels were New York Times bestsellers

* Cleopatra Gold was a New York Times Notable Book in 1993

"He knows more about cops and what moves them [than] Joseph Wambaugh or George V. Higgins. Its special strength is its carefully exacting depiction of what the working life of a big-city police department really is like."--The New York Times Book Review (on One Police Plaza)

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