"Most people run from fires; firemen and cops run toward them' especially when someone inside is screaming. It began when a boy banged on Burgess's car window. He got a gasped' "Fire at the mosque and someone's in there'" and a frantic gesture toward the old commercial building that served as a mosque for Portland's Somali community. His dash into the building leads to a very young mother and tiny baby in a locked closet' and to his worst nightmare -- investigating the death of another child. He must deal with suspicious' uncooperative refugees' members of a motorcycle gang' businessmen engaged in illegal activity' and threats to his family before identifying the mute and terrified young mother and getting justice for a helpless child who never had a chance. "
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