Description: An all-out drug war explodes in 1970s Detroit when a young Vietnam veteran decides to rip off heroin kingpin Willis McDaniel. In the chaos, rival outfits, the Mafia, and even junkies themselves try to step in to fill the void while one lone assassin tries to hunt them all downand one determined cop tries to stop it all.
Review Quotes: A large accomplishment in the art of fiction ... written with terse, impersonal immediacy ... seen, heard, felt and reflected off the blue-steel barrel of a handgun.
--New York Times Book Review