Final justice - W.E.B. Griffin [1]
BOOK II: THE SECRET WARRIORS
BOOK III: THE SOLDIER SPIES
BOOK IV: THE FIGHTING AGENTS
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BADGE OF HONOR: FINAL JUSTICE
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IN FOND MEMORY OF
Sergeant Zebulon V. Casey Internal Affairs Division Police Department, the City of Philadelphia, Retired
"There came a time when there were assignments that had to be done right, and they would seek Zeb out. These assignments included police shootings, civil-rights violations, and he tracked down fugitives all over the country. He was not your average cop. He was very, very professional."
--HOWARD LEBOFSKY
DEPUTY SOLICITOR OF PHILADELPHIA
ONE
[ONE]
It was Sunday night, and at quarter after eleven the Roy Rogers restaurant at South Broad and Snyder Streets in South Philadelphia was just about full.
Amal al Zaid, who was five feet seven inches tall and weighed 145 pounds, and who had spent sixteen of his twenty-one years as Dwayne Alexander Finston before converting to Islam, was mopping a spill from the floor just outside the kitchen door when he glanced at the clock mounted high on the wall near the front entrance to the restaurant.
The first thing he thought was that he had forty-five minutes to go on his shift, and then he would be free to ride his bicycle home to the apartment he shared with his mother, two brothers, and a sister in the Tasker Homes Project a few blocks away, grab a quick shower, and then go by the mosque to see what was happening.
The second thing he thought was, Those two is bad news.
Amal al Zaid had seen two young men enter the restaurant. Both were in their early twenties. One was of average