Beat
LAPD Robbery-Homicide Detective Hayden Glass has always had trouble controlling his urges. No longer trolling the streets looking for working girls, he has a new obsession--the Internet. Infatuated with a woman he finds on a website, Hayden Glass's sex addiction drags him to San Francisco and...
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LAPD Robbery-Homicide Detective Hayden Glass has always had trouble controlling his urges. No longer trolling the streets looking for working girls, he has a new obsession--the Internet. Infatuated with a woman he finds on a website, Hayden Glass's sex addiction drags him to San Francisco and into a web of corruption and crime. Glass’s search for this woman leads him to a massive sex slave trade, run by the Russian mafia and protected by a group of powerful and corrupt San Francisco cops. Glass gets co-opted by the FBI to aid in their investigation...but his presence is doing much more harm than good.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780765322951 (0765322951)
ASIN: 0765322951
Publish date: 2010-09-28
Publisher: Forge Books
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
A recovering alcoholic works the program, stays away from bars, and avoids the liquor aisle at Vons. A recovering junky does the steps and doesn't visit whatever skeevy places a person goes to get heroin. A shopaholic cuts up the credit cards and stays away from the mall. But how does a sex addi...
Second in a series of police procedurals (very loosely defined) after Boulevard, this book can’t truly be called “noir” as there is a semblance of hope at the end, but it’s about as black as one can get.Hayden Glass, an LAPD Robbery-Homicide detective is a sex addict. After witnessing the abduction ...
Stephen Schwartz's pulp novel Beat mixes the surprising nature of its explicit sexual and violent content with an ending that somehow feels too choreographed and too cinematically-minded for the rest of the book. Having creating Hayden Glass, a gritty, believable police detective with a predilectio...