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Explosive high octane thriller taking place in the south side of Chicago, author Marcus Sakey's, "At The City's Edge", pairs an inner city cop with a "other than honorable" war vet to find answers to a horrible crime. After seven years in the Army, Jason Palmer was sent home from the Iraq war certainly less than a hero. Jason's brother Michael who owns a local tap room/ bar, has taken up the cause of reducing gang violence in the city. Michael was working with organizations and officials to shine light on the gang problem. However, Michael's bar is burnt to the ground with his body left inside in an apparent gang retaliation. Michael's son 8 year old Billy turns up on uncle Jason's doorstep after the fire. As Jason decides he's going to bring the killers to justice he finds himself a target as well as Billy. Jason teams up with gang intelligence officer Elena Cruz to go after the "Gangster Disciples". Dion "C-Note" Wallace the leader of the Disciples, has killers after Jason and Cruz. Jason is forced to hide Billy with the "Lantern Bearers", who help get kids out of gangs. Dr. Washington Matthews,43 once a powerful gang leader runs the Lantern Bearers and promises to keep Billy safe. With some crazy car chases and machines guns roaring this yarn never takes it's foot off the gas as this thriller twists and turns confusing the reader as it goes. Jason and Cruz bond as they battle gangsters, crooked cops, crooked politicians, as the police force is obviously is overwhelmed. Jason and Elena do finally admit there is a romantic chemistry between them as they flee for their lives. In a riveting story running just over 320 pages, "At The City's Edge", is the second book I've read from author Marcus Sakey. I certainly did like this yarn more than his first book, "The Blade Itself". Although "Blade" was a solid four star book I really liked, "At The City's Edge" better. It was clearly a five stars out of a possible five star book. Author Marcus Sakey is a really good story teller. I'm excited to start his "Brilliance" trilogy in the near future. "City's Edge" is most certainly a do not miss read. If you haven't checked out any thrillers from author Marcus Sakey you're missing out. His first two books are very enjoyable thrillers.