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Norton Bailey blamed street robbers for his mother’s murder back in 1987. He’s been trapping and killing them ever since. And it was all going well until one of them escaped.

Now, Norton’s decades-long revenge is dangerously exposed.

CSI Eddie Collins—a man blessed with skill but cursed with sarcastic wit—is dragged onto the case. His unorthodox and violent encounter with a local burglar links him to a savage street gang. And wherever they go, death follows like a hungry dog.

Eddie’s abrasiveness clashes with DI Tom Benson, but their shared investigation into Norton is derailed when Benson literally falls into Norton’s deadly trap.

The only way to save him is to make a deal: Eddie must deliver Norton’s real target, an old man named Walter, who holds the shocking secret of his mother’s killing.

With Benson’s life fading and the gang closing in, Eddie is forced into an impossible choice: Save his partner by handing an innocent man to a killer, or let them both suffer The Pain of Strangers?