<p><em>J. P. Beaumont may be an old homicide hand now but back when he was a rookie working with his first partner Milton Gurkey—a.k.a. Pickles—things took a turn for the worse . . .</em></p><p>One day at the end of Beaumont and Pickles's shift a stop at the Doghouse restaurant quickly turns deadly. Not feeling well Pickles steps out into the parking lot for a breath of fresh air and stumbles into a crime in progress. Suffering from a heart attack he is found unconscious with a dead woman on the ground nearby and the murder weapon in his hand.</p><p>With Pickles under investigation from Internal Affairs it's up to the new kid on the block J. P. Beaumont and his friends on the force to find out the truth.</p>
