Jerry is awoken in the middle of the night by a call from a cop, his younger brother John has been shot and killed. Jerry races to the scene of the crime to discover John used his girlfriend's service weapon to kill himself. Things unravel quickly from there.

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Jerry is burned out in SOS and requests a transfer to Midway Airport where he can take a breather but where Jerry goes, crime and conflict follow.

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Jerry joins Special Operations Section and details how the unit would remove drugs and illegal guns off the streets of Chicago. This roving pack of cops was a freight train already coming off the rails when Jerry joins, with a history of members being indicted for a litany of crimes. The unit was highly effective but also troubled.

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Jerry's success as an aggressive cop pays off for the brass of the Chicago Police Department but the complaints against him begin to pile up. Jerry details how the complaint system works and how it built a box he could not get out of.

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Jerry details how he would remove guns from the streets of Chicago, the methodology was not always legal but the results were undeniably effective.

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This chapter details the murder of Jerry's eldest brother Bill who is killed in a stabbing in a bar fight. When no charges are brought against the man who killed Bill, Jerry does his own investigation and believes the fix was in.

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Jerry joins the 7th district tactical team of the Chicago Police Department where he quickly becomes seasoned in the ways of Chicago's "real police".

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Jerry requests and is subsequently assigned to the 7th District, an area of Chicago that is tantamount to a war zone in the 1980's.

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Jerry decides to take the entry exam and become a cop. His training officer is a seasoned veteran with more than 20 years on the job, and Jerry realizes very quickly how dangerous Chicago is.

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Our first conversation details Jerry's youth and the influences that began his trajectory toward becoming a Chicago police officer.

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