"As Los Angeles comes of age in 1966, two undercover cops struggle to keep up while maintaining a balance in the growing drug trade.
Boundaries are broken and borders are crossed in an effort to do good—while doing bad.
Gabe learns from the masters: “Normal”, is a meaningless word civilian society makes up, and the books (on being a cop) don’t know squat. Only the irreverent and unconventional approach gets results.
A phone call in the night brings it all into focus—for a battle to save a life."
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As the salt begins to win the battle over pepper, Marsha finds herself, once again, sitting in a hospital with her father. This time is the last.
The walls are the same white, but now they begin to reflect on her life.
Always the dutiful daughter, and then the supportive wife, she was there.
Mother, wife, daughter—but now she is facing a crisis of identity. As the daughterhood is closing, the wife was thrown aside long ago, and motherhood…
Marsha examines what is and what could have been…
In life, the road not taken is sometimes just another left turn."
"2014 PULITZER PRIZE NOMINEE
Gunnery Sergeant Stone, if nothing else, is a survivor.
Stone is a walking mental time-bomb like so many others who have lost their compass. If he can't find his center and path, he may never get back.
Walking away confused. from the only home and family he has ever known, he has a phone in his pocket—he does not know how to use, a pesky yeoman stalking his every move, and is on an $800 motorcycle, headed west from Bethesda, MD searching for what it means to be a civilian, and what makes home, home.
In an effort to find his peace, he ends up beside a tranquil lake, watching a perfect sunset.
And then the phone rings . . .
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