Below the Radar

by Frank C. Matthews

As Maurice jumped out of bed and moved to get dressed to the banging of the cops knock, Kayla stomped the gas peddle to the metal and took off on screeching tires. She contemplates driving to Harlem, the very borough where the rubber sole of Chef pounded the pavement as he ran from the scene of a murder. Meanwhile, Keith's girlfriend is killed during the shootout in their home. He takes off running from the scene only to be pulled over by a cop who also ends up dead. It is truly a busy hour for cops in New York City's five boroughs. They have to capture a gangbanger in Queens, a drug dealer in Brooklyn, a murderer in Harlem, and a cop killer on Staten Island. As for the Bronx a hooker in a taxi who has robbed her pimp shouts, "go, go, go" as she ducks from his bullets that shatters the back windshield. Luckily the pimp's bullets hit no one, but that can't be said in the case of Usef when a planned robbery is botched after his partner in crime runs out on him. It is then the five indivi

208 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2012