Simply put: Cory Friedman's life is a living hell. Despite his lack of control, Cory is aware of every embarrassing movement, and sensitive to every person's reaction to his often aggravating presence.
The only certainty is that it kept getting worse. Soon it becomes unclear what tics are symptoms of his disease and what are side effects of the drugs. Eventually he is diagnosed with Tourette's Syndrome and Obsessive Compulsive disorder, and Cory embarks on an excruciating journey from specialist to specialist, enduring countless combinations of medications in wildly varying doses. From that day forward his life became a hell of uncontrollable tics, urges, and involuntary utterances. Cory Friedman woke up one morning when he was five years old with the uncontrollable urge to twitch his neck and his life was never the same again. until Harney's quest to expose the evil that's rotting the city from the inside out takes him to the one place he vowed never to return: his own troubled past.ĭescription : Now available in trade paperback, this is the heart-rending drama of one family's courage, heartbreak, sacrifice, and triumph in confronting an agonizing medical condition, written by two master storytellers. On the flip side, the less he seems to know, the longer he can keep his clandestine investigation going. When Harney starts asking questions about who's to blame, the easy answers prove to be the wrong ones. As a population hungry for justice threatens to riot, he realizes that the three known victims are hardly the only ones. But Harney's instincts - his father was once chief of detectives and his twin sister, Patti, is also on the force - run deep. So when a drive-by shooting on the Chicago's west side turns political, he leads the way to a quick solve. To Harney, the newest member of Chicago PD's elite strike force - Special Operations Section (SOS) - getting shot in the head, stalked by a state's attorney, and accused of murder by his fellow cops is all part of breaking a case. When he discovers the existence of a little black book that everyone who's anyone in Chicago will stop at nothing to get their hands on, Billy suspects it contains the truth that will either set him free.or confirm his worst fears.ĭescription : For Detective Billy Harney, the distance from hero to statistic is one false move.
Charged with double murder and desperate to clear his name, Billy retraces his steps to get to the bottom of what happened. But he remembers nothing about the events leading up to the shootout. Left for dead alongside his tempestuous former partner and a hard-charging assistant district attorney out for blood, Billy miraculously survives. The son of Chicago's Chief of Detectives, there's nothing Billy won't give up for the job - including his life. Description : #1 New York Times #1 USA Today #1 Wall Street Journal #1 Chicago Tribune #1 Entertainment Weekly #1 Publishers Weekly How can you prove your innocence when you can't remember the crime? Being a cop runs in Billy Harney's family.