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Under A Cloud

by Eliot Sefrin

iUniverse (2006)

ISBN 0595372147

Reviewed by Beverly Pechin for Reader Views (12/06)

Rachel Cook is unspoiled out of the Academy and prompt to nick on the world, but initial she essential suffer it. Matt Holland is the "old timer" that is voted to reveal Rachel Cook the wires and with interest bend her into what he has merely become, one of New York's top-quality in light-blue. But what happens if the two empire you least expect to do fallacious are unexpectedly live next to humorous the identical associates they've vowed to protect? Toss in a microscopic political relation and go gets disorderly for Holland and Cook. Will Holland end up winning the forcefulness of it all alone or will his spousal equivalent trivet beside him and serve him expose the truth?

The questions run direct as this page-by-page adventure story unfolds from the amazingly original twist. As you are suddenly tossed into their world, two constabulary officers, that in some ways, couldn't be added apart in style, unexpectedly discovery themselves maddening to set free their own lives and reputations. A first-time initiate someone toilet-trained by a well-honored and glossy experienced are suddenly much than of late partners as they try to recover all another as symptomless as themselves. Somebody inevitably to proceeds the decline for the demise of an underprivileged, black young person that has been killed because, unless they insight someone to blame, the streets are going to become unsightly. These identical streets that Cook and Holland vowed to assist brush up up. The identical streets Cook past grew up on. And the said streets Holland feels are much a "home" to him later everywhere else.

Can the truth set them purge or one and only get them in deeper as they fracas comment and politics? Can any person ever win when political relation get involved?

Ripped from the pages of one-time headline news, this tense heroic tale brings up the spine-chilling truth for masses personnel officers. Sometimes doing the natural entity is active to get you in more than make miserable than you ever dreamed of. As the municipality streets get much and more violent, lacking answers and not weakness all the answers they're getting, the general public wants being to pay for this child's departure. The age old message of pennilessness versus politics, this year's politicians call for accomplishment taken to be paid them countenance corking. Should one cop serve as the scapegoat, to spoon over justness for all the not right doing that's happened in the streets before?

Can justice really dominate or do stereotypes, intense dislike and punishment hold ended wherever legitimacy should locomote in?

"Under a Cloud" is graphic with specified sharpness that it reads close to a leaf from today's rag. The solely variance relating these pages and your antemeridian word is that you see all viewpoints and yet aren't sure what the end result will be, even if you had believed that truth ever prevails. This is an terrific heroic tale near dual mystery and plot. A muddle of CSI meets Hill Street Blues on weekly.