Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0978752805, Perfect Paperback)

David Mason, up-and-coming detective in the Houston Police Department, has a career that is on a meteoric rise. Now he comes face to face with two of the toughest challenges of his life. First, circumstances force him to decide if he will break the code that Texas police officers adhere to: protect their brother officers. He believes fellow officers have committed a homicide. If he betrays them, he will encounter the wrath of the officers in the department. For David, the decision is simple. He has to do what is right. The consequences are not simple. In the midst of this controversy, a cunning sniper wounds David and starts to murder his police friends. Determined he will find the killer, he begins to encounter resistance and jealousies in his own department. With no evidence to go on, he knows he has to stop the killer before someone else dies.