Just Released, Desperate Measures; The Chase Longmire Story
A veteran police detective takes ‘Desperate Measures’ to get killed in the line of duty
D.E. Gray continues to honor the lives and challenges of the dedicated working street cops in his fifth novel
SAN DIEGO– Having been a street cop for 42 years, author D.E. Gray has devoted writing novels to honor the lives and challenges of the dedicated working street cops whom he refers to as “warriors.” As he explains in his first book, “The Warrior in Me”, there are only two groups of people in any large metropolitan police organization, warriors who work the streets and administrators who enforce the rules. Now on his fifth publication, Gray returns to the literary limelight with the release of “Desperate Measures” (published by Xlibris).
The book follows the story of Chase Longmire, a high-ranking 23-year veteran police detective working at LAPD’s elite Robbery Homicide Division. Chase soon learns that he has an incurable form of brain cancer with six months to live. He has to come to terms with his terminal disease and devises a plan to return to uniform patrol (street cop) in a hot division (Newton Division) to commit suicide by thug. If he dies on the job, his family will collect 1.5 million dollar life insurance policy. However, it turns out getting killed on the job has its problems.
His plan runs into a major snag when the captain of his division assigns him a new female police officer to train. Now he must protect her, not just from the physical dangers of the job, but also from the internal dangers within the department, while at the same time, try to commit suicide by thug. After struggling with her last FTO, Longmire is her last chance to becoming one of Los Angeles’ finest.
When asked what he wants readers to take away from the story, the author says, “Blue Lives Matter. The real heroes are the cops who work the streets and how long they can survive and make it to retirement while they watch the mainstream news media crucify their character while they minimize their cause.”
“Desperate Measures: The Chase Longmire Story”
By D.E. Gray
Hardcover | 6 x 9in | 374 pages | ISBN 9781796012033
Softcover | 6 x 9in | 374 pages | ISBN 9781796012026
E-Book | 374 pages | ISBN 9781796012019
Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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