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The Thin Blue Line Series, Book 2
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Dennis Murphy
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Amazon number one release
Will an older small-town cop make it in the high-crime big city?
After laterally transferring from the sleepy bedroom hamlet of the Town of Camillus Police Department, Officer Patrick MacKenna has a whole different learning curve to contend with.... He rarely if ever had to pull his gun at CPD, but now he has a hard time leaving it in the holster. Drug dealers, gang bangers, robberies, shootings, and stabbings just keep adding up in his daily log as he tries to assimilate to the fast pace life of a city cop in an urban setting. What's helping in the transition is that he's lucky enough to find an eclectic set of SPD officers who are turning out to really be brothers and sisters in arms!
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