Twenty years ago, two young cops watched T. C. Cooke, a master detective, work a murder scene in a ragged community garden in a violent D. C. neighborhood. Today, a real estate rush has done everything to these streets but change them--and in the same garden, amid the same mayhem, a killer has left a body with an M. O. that the three men recognize fast. T. C. Cooke, long-since retired is still haunted by the case he never solved. Gus Ramone is a decent cop, loyal husband, and father fighting for this son's future. And Dan Holiday hustles for a living after an ugly fall from grace. Now they come together again, hitting the new murder with a desperate, dangerous fervor. For on this hard, bloodstained soil, they have what no one ever gets: the seeds of a second chance... (back cover)