Dark, gritty, and razor-sharp.
Betrayed by the badge he wore, a decorated Chicago officer triggers a relentless cycle of corruption, revenge, and reckoning in Izzi’s fast-paced thriller. Tommy Russo was once one of Chicago’s finest—until dirty cops took him down. Four years later, he’s free… but the city that betrayed him hasn’t changed. When the officers who ruined his life are executed one by one, Russo becomes the prime suspect. He has every reason to want revenge. But as bodies pile up and the FBI tightens the net, Russo must uncover the truth before he’s buried by it. Because someone else is delivering justice—and they’re not finished yet.
Izzi handles multiple storylines with confidence, weaving Russo’s fall and return into a wider portrait of systemic corruption. By moving between cops, cartel players, and investigators, the novel builds a convincing sense of scale. De La Cruz stands out in particular, not as a stock villain, but as a cold, calculating operator whose business polish makes him all the more unsettling. At its core, the novel wrestles with a question it never neatly answers: where does justice end and revenge begin when the system itself is broken? Russo’s journey gains strength from that uncertainty. The violence, though often stark, isn’t gratuitous. If the novel occasionally leans into familiar genre territory—the framed cop, the corrupt department, the shadowy kingpin—it compensates with emotional sincerity and narrative momentum. Russo’s personal losses ground the story, giving weight to its larger conflicts, while the escalating tension sustains engagement through to its central mystery: who is truly orchestrating the reckoning?
A hard-edged urban thriller that places character and consequence at the forefront.
Pub date March 29, 2026
ISBN 979-8254211204
Print length 433 pages
Price $16.99 (USD) Paperback, $9.99 Kindle edition
