Shane Scully: A tough, hard nosed cop who often bends the rules in order to get things done ...

Walter “Pop” Dix was the director of Huntington House, an orphanage and halfway house for children in between foster homes. He was a surrogate father to hundreds of troubled kids, among them Shane Scully of the LAPD. Dix was also a surfer, and among the few fond memories Scully has of his childhood are the early-morning surf sessions with Dix at Huntington Beach. Scully had lost touch with his mentor, though, until word arrives that Dix has committed suicide. In his papers, Dix names Scully, along with five other former residents of the home, as his preferred pallbearers. The six concur that Dix would never have committed suicide, and Scully reluctantly agrees to look into the already-closed investigation. The case drags Scully and his ragtag team into the brutal world of professional mixed martial arts fighting and into an elaborate embezzlement scheme involving Huntington House and several other child-care facilities.

Charged with misconduct in a high-profile solicitation of murder case, Lt. Shane Scully is forced to resign from the LAPD or face criminal prosecution. His wife, Alexa leaves him, and his son won’t speak to him. In order to make a living, Scully ends up at the Haven Park, California Police Department. Haven Park is a small, incorporated city near Los Angeles, largely populated by illegal immigrants. The department has the reputation of being the mayor’s personal goon squad and collection agency. Relentlessly harassed by an over-zealous FBI agent, and under the constant paranoid scrutiny of his fellow officers, Shane thinks Alexa may be the only one who can get him out of the situation he’s in. The question is: Will she?

LAPD detective Scully has been struggling in his personal life ever since his wife, Alexa, the department’s chief of the detective’s bureau, was shot in the head and developed erratic mood swings. Secada Llevar, a sexy investigating officer for internal affairs, corners Scully and demands his help in reopening a homicide; she believes Tru Hickman, convicted of killing his mother to support a meth habit, was railroaded by some corrupt cops, but she has been ordered by her superiors to drop her inquiry. Scully joins her probe and predictably uncovers high-level corruption, possibly connected with an impending mayoral election, while struggling with his attraction to Secada.

Leaving L.A.’s Parker Center, Shane Scully and his wife, Alexa, agree to meet at home … but Alexa never arrives. Then Shane’s called to a crime scene on Mulholland Drive, where the victim, an apparent gang member, has been executed and left in Alexa’s car. Her gun is the likely murder weapon. As Shane desperately tries to find Alexa, it’s his worst nightmare come true … and Shane is no stranger to big trouble.

Shane Scully has too many things to deal with. There’s the latest in a string of serial murders, although Shane has serious doubts that this victim fits the pattern. There’s his captain, who keeps pressing him to get the murder solved before the chief of detectives forms a task force. There’s his wife, the aforementioned chief of detectives. There’s his partner, an old friend who is in serious danger of letting booze take away his badge. And there’s the surprising link between Shane’s current murder victim and a decade-old unsolved murder of an L.A. cop.

A nightmarish series of events sweeps LAPD’s Sergeant Shane Scully and his wife (and boss), Alexa, into a jurisdictional firestorm. First, a sheriff's deputy, a friend of Shane’s, is gunned down while serving a routine search warrant. His fellow deputies blame the incident on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, whom they angrily accuse of having failed to warn them that the suspect had a huge arsenal of illegal weapons in his house. Soon thereafter, a member of the ATF Situation Response Team is shot to death, followed by a sniper murder at the Sheriff's Special Enforcement Bureau. At the request of the Mayor, LAPD, as an uninvolved and unbiased agency, assigns Shane Scully to investigate. He is given an impossible deadline to find a solution before these two elite and deadly SWAT Teams kill each other off amid a hurricane of horrible publicity.