The Fatal Saving Grace

<p><strong>MAYHEM WITH A BADGE</strong></p><p></p><p>After wandering the peephole wilderness of a private detective for two decades defrocked Dallas homicide detective Ed Earl Burch is an official manhunter again wearing the badge of a DA's investigator in the harsh desert mountains of West Texas.</p><p></p><p>Big D it ain't. And life as a resurrected lawman isn't everything he hoped it would be. Too many rules. Not enough satisfaction. And a boss who hates him for saving his life.</p><p></p><p>But Burch is back tracking a serial killer who tortured and murdered his ex-lover--an Aryan Brotherhood gang leader Burch thought he killed in a desert shootout. He's also trying to protect the fugitive granddaughter of an old friend and her four-year-old son--from this straight-razor butcher and gunsels hired by her incestuous Dixie Mafia daddy.</p><p></p><p>Throats get slashed. Bullets smack flesh. Bodies drop. And Ed Earl Burch and his partner Bobby Quintero are in reckless pursuit dodging death closing in on their prey.</p><p></p><p>No place Burch would rather be. Unless he gets killed.</p>