Wasted Years

A detective's dark past meets his violent present in "[a] rich tapestry that lifts the police procedural into the realm of the mainstream novel" (Sue Grafton).

It starts with five professional thieves. At their first robbery, they press a sawed-off shotgun against a bank manager's head, and leave with nearly forty thousand pounds. They repeat the trick three times, raking in nearly half a million in cash. They have yet to kill, but with each raid they come closer to taking their bounty in...