New York, NY: Penguin Putnam (1998)

Hanson, the Vietnam-vet hero of "Sympathy for the Devil", is now a Portland, Oregon, cop assigned to the inner city, where, in the summer of 1975, the easy availability of drugs and guns is turning the neighborhood into a war zone. Skilled at dealing with violence, Hanson is also dangerously drawn to it. Assigned to a run of controversial cases, Hanson feels his world spinning out of control as he becomes the target of a deranged killer.