Review of THE RENEGADES by T. Jefferson Parker (see his website)

A CHARLIE HOOD NOVEL

Dutton, February 2009

When his partner is gunned down by a machinegunner in an apparent gang hit, cop Charlie Hood agrees to a stint with Internal Affairs to get the chance to hunt down Terry Laws's shooter. The more he looks, though, the less he believes the easy answers laid down for him. Where did Laws get the money to buy the really nice L.A. home he lived in? What is the deal with his relationship with a deputy cop who serves for a dollar a day? Maybe, Hood realizes, Terry didn't live up to the "Mr. Wonderful" billing he'd staked out for himself. Still, did he deserve to be shot down in the road?

Draper escaped a childhood on the border and now runs a high-class car dealership. But he isn't satisfied with that--and his friendship with Terry Laws, along with his dollar-a-year job as an assistant cop, just might be the beginning of something big. Draper is smart enough to know that one man is just a man, but two men might be the beginning of an organization. Years ago, The Renegades had ruled the L.A. police, making up rules as they went, creating an elite brotherhood within the force, and holding themselves accountable only to one another. Draper wants something like that--but with him at the top. He intends to let nothing stand in his way--least of all, a cop like Hood.

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