The Eddie Ankin Series · Book 6

The Shield

Hollywood's biggest prize just became a murder weapon. And the second body on the floor is a cop.

The Shield

Hollywood's biggest prize just became a murder weapon. And the second body on the floor is a cop.

From a producer of Breaking Bad, Mad Men, and The Walking Dead.

Eddie Ankin makes movie stars look like heroes.

Hollywood stuntman. What he isn't is a detective — which is a problem, because tonight he's standing over two corpses in the Pacific Palisades home of director Quentin Reznor, and one of them is Sean Riddle.

Riddle was a legend at the LAPD. He was also the man who gave Detective Kim Mallory her shot at homicide.

Within hours Mallory is locked out of her own mentor's case. So she brings it to the one person who can work it from outside the department — and the two of them start pulling on a killing the city would rather leave closed.

Two victims. Two killers. Two motives threading through a city where justice was never meant to be equal.

Eddie has spent his whole career making other men look like heroes.

This time he has to be one.

For fans of Jack Reacher, Elvis Cole, and Nelson DeMille's John Corey.

Releases August 30, 2026

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