Baltimore, 2015. Riots were erupting across the city. Drug and violent crime were surging, with homicides reaching their highest level in over two decades. For years, Sgt Wayne Jenkins and his elite team of plain-clothed officers - the Gun Trace Task Force - had been the city's lauded heroes, working to get drugs and guns off the streets.
But all the while they had been stealing drugs and money and gaming the system. Because who would believe the dealers, the smugglers or the people who had simply been going about their daily business over the word of the city's elite task force?
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THE LETTER ARRIVED IN the chambers of a federal judge in Baltimore in the summer of 2017.
- CHAPTER ONE, KNOCKERS
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(@FaberBooks, 23 February 2021, e-book, 354 pages, copy from @skytv via Sky VIP, #POPSUGARReadingChallenge, a book you meant to read in 2022)
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I enjoyed this book a lot. A few years ago, I would not have believed the events in the book were real, that the depicted events actually happened. But I know better now thanks to high profile cases in the media such as the Sarah Everard murder. I liked the way the book unfolds with the GTTF's world gradually coming down on top of them. I doubt the corruption ended though, call me cynical. I haven't watched the TV show but probably will now. This is a compelling read.
