Blue Debt - DARRYL WAYNE JR TOWNSEND

Marcus Tate gave the Houston Police Department twenty-eight years. They gave him a plaque, a handshake, and a death sentence.Two weeks after retiring as HPD's most decorated homicide detective, Marcus's family is massacred in a home invasion that kills his wife, his son, and his seventeen-year-old daughter. Marcus survives - barely - and begins hunting the men responsible.But every lead the department feeds him is a dead end. Every trail circles back to nowhere. And the deeper Marcus digs on his own, the more the evidence points somewhere it shouldn't: toward the badge he carried for three decades.A locked deadbolt with no forced entry. Deleted security footage traced to an HPD terminal. A witness statement that vanished from the file. A drug corridor in Third Ward that operates with protection no street gang could buy on its own.The conspiracy reaches higher than Marcus ever imagined. And the people running it have already decided how his story ends.BLUE DEBT is a searing crime thriller about institutional betrayal, a father's impossible grief, and the price of a truth that no one in power wants told.