The Chinese Fire Drill (ePub)

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." ― Albert Einstein

Epic chaos in Precinct 6 of a major Midwest American city begins as just a minor fire inside a long abandoned warehouse near Little China. It's a trivial arson fraud, stupidly begun, then more stupidly handled, and even more stupidly investigated later when it becomes a federal case with a death involved.

Yet that bungled minor arson starts churning up deep seated public corruption, gang wars, other seemingly unrelated deaths, and more odd insanity in Precinct 6. A lonely, jaded, cynical, and mostly uncaring night shift cop known as Mister Hobo gets unwillingly caught up in the mounting deadly chaos.

He wants no part of it, and has no time to be a hero. After all, he has friends to save, a con artist's daughter suspiciously wanting to be his new girlfriend, and a spook kid from his past dogging him around too. Yet there was also a very real possibility that he and his fellow offbeat cop pals in Precinct 6 were now being specifically targeted. But who would have them in their crosshairs? And why? 

A heart weary Hobo is no detective, but maybe that screwball arson case now labeled The Chinese Fire Drill has just become way too personal. It might even force Mister Hobo to once again put his badge and wary heart back into the front of the thin blue line. However, the price for beginning the cleanup of crime, corruption, and chaos in Precinct 6 wouldn't be cheap, nor the results … tidy.