Copp On Ice, A Joe Copp Thriller (Joe Copp Private Eye Series) - Plot & Excerpts
I'd use a different metaphor for the present situation. Unless it was total coincidence, my presence in Brighton seemed to be having an opposite effect. Lightning was striking all around me, sure, but not harmlessly. Just look at it. I'd been in charge for a matter of hours and already three people were dead. If it kept going at this rate, I could depopulate the town before the city council could can me. I dropped by the newspaper office at four a.m. and went through their morgue of local news, thinking I'd better get a bit ahead of the game before it rolled over me. The guy at the night desk was very helpful, knew exactly where to go to bring the relevant past alive for me, and I learned a lot. Learned, for example, when and how Mayor Katz had lost control of his town. It was more or less as Pappy McGuire had told me, but with a couple of details left out of his account. The local police association, the cops' union, had been instrumental in the balancing of the city council, throwing their support to a couple of mavericks who'd never been in politics before but won office a year earlier on a reform platform.
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