Sixty-one days before Detective Mick Cluett is due to retire, someone shoots him out in Sheepshead Bay and his murder quickly triggers the death of a young computer clerk who ran the murder gun`s serial number through the data banks four years earlier. As the investigation develops, Lt. Sigrid Harald realizes that Cluett`s murder may be tied to the on-duty death of her own father and that the killer may be closer to her than she ever imagined. "...a terse, technically expert police procedural, its hard-boiled plot undiluted by sentimentality." - Publishers Weekly