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.
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