P.I. Spenser, knight-errant of the trunk Bay, returns in this stellar addition to the iconic NY Times-bestselling series from writer Ace Atkins.

What started out as a joke landed seventeen-year-old Dillon Yates inside a lockdown juvenile facility in Boston Harbor. When he setup a prank Twitter take into account his vice primary, he never imagined he could possibly be raised on criminal fees, but that’s exactly what happened.

That is Blackburn, Massachusetts, where zero tolerance for minors about Robert B. Parker’s Kickback is normally a way of life.

Leading the movement can be tough-as-nails Assess Joe Scali, who provides speeches about obtaining tough on today’s wild youth. But Dillon’s mother, who knows various other Blackburn kids who are performing difficult experience for small infractions, isn’t buying Scali’s collection. She hires Spenser to get the truth behind the draconian sentencing.

Through the Harbor Islands to a gated Florida community, Spenser and trusted ally Hawk follow a trail through the Boston underworld with links to a shadowy corporation that operates New England’s personal prisons. They ultimately uncover a tradition of problem and cover-ups in the older mill city, where a huge selection of kids are sent off to for-profit juvie jails.