The Fallen

T. Jefferson Parker

eBook - 2009

The New York Times bestseller from the three-time Edgar Award winner: Sometimes what it takes to catch a killer is a cop who thinks differently . . . A good cop, Robbie Brownlaw was thrown from a sixth-floor window of a downtown hotel and miraculously survived. The traumatic incident left Robbie with a fast-track career in the San Diego P.D.'s Homicide division . . . and a rare neurological condition called synesthesia that jumbles his senses. It enables him to see people's emotional words as colored shapes—green trapezoids of envy, red squares of deception—something like a primitive lie detector.Another good man lies dead in a blood-spattered Ford Explorer—an ex-cop-turned-ethics investigator whose private life was torn ope...n by unthinkable tragedy. Whether Garrett Asplundh's death was suicide or murder isn't immediately apparent—but it's soon clear to Robbie and his smart, tough partner that Garrett had hard evidence of sex, scandal, and corruption... more