Mission Flats

Mission Flats by William Landay Former D.A. William Landay
explodes onto the suspense scene with an electrifying
novel about the true price of crime and the hidden corners
of the criminal justice system. Only an insider could so
vividly capture Boston’s gritty underworld of cops and
criminals. And only a natural storyteller could weave this
mesmerizing tale of murder and memory a story about the
hold of time past over time present–and the story of one
unforgettable young policeman who ventures into the most
dangerous place of all. By a gleaming lake in the forests
of western Maine outside a sleepy town called Versailles
the body of a man lies sprawled in a deserted cabin. The
dead man was an elite D.A. from Boston and his beat was
that city’s toughest Mission Flats . Now for small-town
police chief Ben Truman investigating the murder will mean
leaving his quiet haunted home and journeying to an alien
world of hard streets and hard bargains where the fierce
struggle between police and criminals is fought for the
ultimate stakes. Ben joins a manhunt through Mission Flats
where cops are scrambling to find their number-one Harold
Braxton a ruthless predator targeted for prosecution by
the murdered D.A. To the Boston police Braxton is a marked
man. But as Ben watches the shadow dance of cops and
suspects he begins to voice doubts about Braxton’s
guilt…especially when he uncovers a secret history of
murder and retribution stretching back twenty years…back
to a brutal killing now nearly forgotten. As past and
present collide and a bloody mystery unfolds only one
thing remains the most powerful revelations are yet to
come. Mission Flats is at once a relentless page-turning
mystery and a vivid portrait of a cop’ s life. Here are
the street corners courtrooms and stationhouses; the deal
makers thugs and quiet heroes. An unforgettable world–and
the luminous boundary-breaking debut of a new voice in
suspense fiction–Mission Flats will haunt you long after
the final pages.