Killer Kink

Killer Kink, set in Washington, DC, is a return to hard-boiled crime fiction. The author, an ex-Marine combat veteran, spent eight years as police reporter for the Washington Times. From hundreds of nights in squad cars he knows the city, the bad places, the cirrhotic drunks crawling in alleys and wtting themselves, the transvestites, the paranoid schizophrenics babbling in Georgetown, the blank streets of Capitol Hill at three a.m.

In Killer KINk, Robert Dawson, police reporter for a local ...