From BOOKLIST "Racial issues abound in this sensitive sequel to Supreme Justice (1999). Hardwick's complex, conflicted, but gutsy cop hero, Detective Danny Cavanaugh, of Detroit's Special Crimes Unit (called "the Sewer" because the unit must solve the worst crimes), is a white cop with a record for being violent ("overzealous" in department jargon) in a predominantly black city. As the enforced visits to the department shrink reveal, Cavanaugh's attitudes toward race are problematic for a cop. All his festering problems bubble up when he's assigned to catch the architect of a crime spree that targets wealthy African Americans. Hardwick presents an unflinching picture of how race plays out on the streets and in the police. He paints unforgettable pictures of gutted-out cityscapes... Thought-provoking crime fiction.