Vertical Coffin by Stephen J. Cannell

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Bibliographic Details

• Author: Stephen J. Cannell
• Title: Vertical Coffin (A Shane Scully Novel)
• Publisher: ‎ St. Martin's Press; First Edition (January 23, 2004)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover – 335 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0312304250
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0312304256
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.35 pounds
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.38 x 1.22 x 9.56 inches
• Book Condition: New – Mint
• Dust Jacket Condition: Excellent
• Edition: First Edition

Synopsis:

A nightmarish series of events sweeps LAPD's Sergeant Shane Scully and his wife (and boss), Alexa, into the vortex of an enormous, jurisdictional firestorm.

First, a sheriff's deputy, a friend of Shane's, is gunned down while serving a routine search warrant. His fellow deputies blame the incident on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, whom they angrily accuse of having failed to warn them that the suspect had a huge arsenal of illegal weapons in his house.

Soon thereafter, a member of the ATF Situation Response Team is shot to death, followed by the sniper murder of the Sheriff's Special Enforcement Bureau. At the request of the Mayor, LAPD, as an uninvolved and unbiased agency, assigns Shane Scully to investigate.

He is given an impossible deadline to find a solution before these two elite and deadly SWAT Teams kill each other off amid a hurricane of horrible publicity. Shane pursues his investigation in a direction that neither his chief nor his wife agrees with, and succeeds in putting himself, his loved ones, and his career in terrible jeopardy before he finally discovers the shocking and deadly truth.

Stephen J. Cannell's Vertical Coffin is an electrifying, fast-paced thriller.

About the Author:

Stephen J. Cannell was an American television producer, writer, novelist, and occasional actor, and the founder of Cannell Entertainment (formerly Stephen J. Cannell Productions) and the Cannell Studios.

Cannell created or co-created several successful TV series from the 1970s to the 1990s. Creations included The Rockford Files, The A-Team, The Greatest American Hero, 21 Jump Street, and The Commish.

He was an Emmy winner and was awarded The Eye – Lifetime Achievement Award by the Private Eye Writers of America.

Cannell’s success was made even more remarkable by the fact that he suffered from extreme dyslexia.

He died in 2010 from complications with melanoma.