The Price of Looking Away
When his beloved nephew is murdered by the criminal empire he spent eleven years protecting, a corrupt Bridgeport detective with a failing heart turns against the powerful men who own him-risking his badge, his freedom, and what little life he has left to deliver the justice he once sold.
HE TOOK THEIR MONEY FOR ELEVEN YEARS. NOW HE'S COMING FOR EVERYTHING THEY BOUGHT.
For thirty-one years, Detective Russ Wheeler has known the darkest secrets of Bridgeport, Connecticut. For the last eleven, he's been paid to keep them buried.
He told himself the money was harmless. That protecting certain criminals kept worse ones off the streets. That nobody innocent would ever pay the price.
Then his twenty-nine-year-old nephew is found murdered in a downtown parking garage.
And the trail leads straight to the criminal empire Russ helped build.
Now the men who once paid for his silence have a problem: the detective who knows where every body is buried has nothing left to lose.
With his health deteriorating and time running out, Russ begins tearing apart the network he spent years protecting-from ruthless street operators to a powerful developer whose influence reaches deep into City Hall.
But every secret he exposes brings new danger. His family is shattered. His career is collapsing. And Detective Angie Cole, the one person capable of helping him, must decide whether she can trust a partner whose entire career has been built on lies.
As enemies close in and the consequences of his corruption finally come due, Russ faces a terrible truth:
He can destroy the men responsible for his nephew's death. But nothing he does will bring the boy home.
Set against the rain-soaked streets and industrial waterfront of Bridgeport, The Price of Looking Away is a gripping, emotionally charged crime thriller about murder, corruption, betrayal, family, and the devastating cost of doing the right thing too late.
Some men spend their lives running from justice. Russ Wheeler is running out of time to deliver it.
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