Neon Nightmare

Set in the 1980s when mail still came in envelopes, veteran LAPD cop Carlyle Phelps had to do things the old-fashioned way. It was a time when cell phones were just over the horizon. Google was a character named Barney Google in a 1940s comic strip. Investigations relied even more on shoe leather than they do today. Still, it was the guys in the white hats against the guys in the black hats. Phelps knew how to deal with the black hats. He wasn’t sure he knew anyone with a really sparkling white hat. As is the case today, the police action played out almost exclusively among infinitely subtle shades of gray.

Officer Neon Miller’s worst nightmare comes true when his efforts to help a young boy are misread as abuse. It’s up to Carlyle Phelps to get to the truth and keep Neon out of prison—not to mention saving his reputation and career. Some investigators in Internal Affairs are set on making an example of Neon regardless of the facts. But Phelps believes all the resources at their disposal are not as powerful as the truth. If he can prove it.