01978cam a2200313 i 4500 551957790 TxGeo 20220324120000.0 200704s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781951709198 trade pbk. 1951709195 trade pbk. (OCoLC)1162792593 TxGeo rda Stallings, Josh. Tricky / Josh Stallings. First trade paperback edition. Aberdeen, NJ : Agora Books, 2021. 289 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Does your past define you forever? That's the question LAPD homicide detective Niels Madsen must answer after he gets in the middle of a standoff between two uniformed officers and Cisco, an intellectually disabled man. Cisco is found armed and standing over the body of a man with Down syndrome. Cisco swears the dead man was his good friend, and he didn't hurt him, but in his earlier life, Cisco had been gang member, a brilliant and brutal killer. After he was badly beaten, brain injuries left him him--if he is to be believed--with the intellectual intelligence of a child. Madsen's search for the truth leads him through the special needs community, East LA gang life, and pits him up against the corrupt LA Sheriff's Department. More than a police procedural, Tricky explores questions of human nature: Whether a man can change, for better or worse, and whether redemption is possible."--Provided by publisher. 20220405. Gang members Fiction. Homicide investigation Fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) QS5