On the Grind: A Shane Scully Novel

Stephen J. Cannell

St. Martin's Publishing Group, Jan 6, 2009 - Fiction - 320 pages

On the heels of Three Shirt Deal, a New York Times bestseller, comes an electrifying new thriller from Stephen J. Cannell in which Lt. Shane Scully is accused of evidence tampering and his wife, Alexa, discovers Shane's been having an affair with a beautiful movie star.

Charged with felony misconduct in a high-profile solicitation of murder case, Lieutenant Scully is faced with an impossible decision: either quietly resign from his job as a detective for the LAPD, the work he loves, or face criminal prosecution. Rather than smear the department's reputation and his own, Scully chooses to leave. His colleagues of years feel betrayed to learn that a dirty cop has been in their midst. His wife, Alexa, the chief of detectives, leaves him, seeking a divorce for his dalliance with the accused in the case, a beautiful, well-known Hollywood actress. His son, Chooch, horrified by these events, won't even speak to him. Life as Scully knows it is over. Or so it seems . . .

In order to make a living the only way he knows how, Shane seeks employment from a police department that has been known to hire rejects from other departments: the Haven Park PD. Haven Park is an incorporated city near downtown Los Angeles, just one square mile in size and populated almost entirely by Mexican immigrants, most of them illegal. The department is a hotbed of corruption, in effect the personal goon squad and collection agency of the town's mayor, Cecil Bratano. Ushered into the department by his new partner, Alonzo Bell, Shane takes his lessons in policing from one of the dirtiest cops around.

But things in L.A. are hardly ever what they seem. Relentlessly harassed by an over-zealous FBI agent, the alluring Ophelia Love, and under the constant, violent, and hyper-paranoid scrutiny of his new comrades-at-arms, Shane finds himself in snare a far greater than any he could have expected. His estranged wife may be the only one who can get Shane out of this mess alive. The question is: Is she willing to do so?

Contents

• CHAPTER 1: 1
• CHAPTER 2: 6
• CHAPTER 3: 15
• CHAPTER 4: 19
• CHAPTER 5: 27
• CHAPTER 6: 34
• CHAPTER 7: 38
• CHAPTER 8: 45
• CHAPTER 9: 48
• CHAPTER 10: 55
• CHAPTER 11: 59
• CHAPTER 12: 67
• CHAPTER 13: 72
• CHAPTER 14: 76
• CHAPTER 15: 82
• CHAPTER 16: 89
• CHAPTER 17: 97
• CHAPTER 18: 102
• CHAPTER 19: 110
• CHAPTER 20: 114
• CHAPTER 21: 117
• CHAPTER 22: 126
• CHAPTER 23: 131
• CHAPTER 24: 136
• CHAPTER 25: 141
• CHAPTER 26: 146
• CHAPTER 27: 151
• CHAPTER 28: 156
• CHAPTER 29: 160
• CHAPTER 30: 164
• CHAPTER 31: 167
• CHAPTER 32: 175
• CHAPTER 33: 180
• CHAPTER 34: 186
• CHAPTER 35: 192
• CHAPTER 36: 196
• CHAPTER 37: 200
• CHAPTER 38: 204
• CHAPTER 39: 208
• CHAPTER 40: 212
• CHAPTER 41: 216
• CHAPTER 42: 221
• CHAPTER 43: 226
• CHAPTER 44: 230
• CHAPTER 45: 233
• CHAPTER 46: 238
• CHAPTER 47: 242
• CHAPTER 48: 246
• CHAPTER 49: 251
• CHAPTER 50: 255
• CHAPTER 51: 259
• CHAPTER 52: 263
• CHAPTER 53: 267
• CHAPTER 54: 271
• CHAPTER 55: 277
• CHAPTER 56: 282
• CHAPTER 57: 287
• CHAPTER 58: 291
• CHAPTER 59: 295
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: 299

About the author

In his thirty-five-year-career, Emmy Award-winning writer STEPHEN J. CANNELL created more than forty TV series. Among his hits were The Rockford Files, Silk Stalkings, The A-Team, 21 Jump Street, Hunter, Renegade, Wiseguy, and The Commish. St. Martin's Press is proud to have been his publisher for nearly a decade.

Bibliographic information

• Title: On the Grind: A Shane Scully Novel; Volume 8 of Shane Scully Novels
• Author: Stephen J. Cannell
• Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2009
• ISBN: 1429988886, 9781429988889
• Length: 320 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural; Fiction / Thrillers / General; Fiction / Thrillers / Political