Set in the United States Attorneys Office for the Central District of California, Deadly Force is the first novel in a trilogy about Lizzie Scott and her battles to tame the Inland Empire, the Wests wild frontier. As timely as it is troubling, Deadly Force is the ultimate insiders look at a prosecutors worst nightmare: having to go after one of the good guys, a cop accused of having shot an unarmed suspect to death in cold blood. To get justice, Scott has to put more than her career on the line. Nobody is more deadly than a dirty cop out for revenge.