Cold Hit
by Stephen J. Cannell
What if, under the PATRIOT Act, federal bureaucrats could take murder cases away from local cops--then bury those cases so they're never investigated again? What if government agents could bug your home, your car, your place of business--your entire life--with nothing more than spoken permission from a secret panel of judges? What if the Department of Homeland Security could pull police officers off the street and hold them in cells indefinitely as material witnesses--because they're working on "sensitive" investigations?They can . . . The PATRIOT Act and the Homeland Security Act give enormous power to our nation's top federal law enforcement officials. They operate under the presumption that these officials are honest, diligent, and fair.But what if they're not?In THE COLD HIT, Detective Shane Scully suspects that the regional boss of the Department of Homeland Security is thwarting a major murder investigation. But why?...