A 12-year-old girl is the desperate focus of three men—John, a dedicated young teacher searching for vigilante justice, Charlie, a small-time private detective with a checkered past, and Steven, a top mafia narcotics importer.

Their paths cross when John makes a shocking, vengeful move to save his eighth-grade students from Detroit’s vicious drug wars, Steven’s young daughter goes missing, and Charlie, hired to find her, confronts a moral dilemma that will change all their lives.

Tightly plotted and action packed, this second book of The detroit im dyin Trilogy can be read as a standalone and is a powerful urban crime thiller laced with noir secrets and murder. Its furious final chapters spin a kidnapping scheme so bizarre that it just might work.

“If you like Elmore Leonard, you’ll love these books.”—Victoria Best, Tales from the Reading Room

“LoCicero's knowledge of his city and the people that live there are remarkable. The dying city in Michigan is alive on the pages of his evolving trilogy.”—Patrick, Amazon Reviewer

“This is a powerful read that handles sensitive and important issues very well without letting down those readers who came for a good crime story. I am eagerly awaiting the next book in the series.”—Christoph Fischer, author of The Luck of the Weissensteiners