Beat Cop: A Love Letter to the City of Fog, Ghosts, and Lost Men

From Jack Chase, author of Made in America and The Schultz Brothers, comes one of his earliest and most haunting works.Nick Demming has worn the badge for thirty-two years. On his final day with the SFPD, he's forced to confront everything he's lost along the way—his family, his purpose, and maybe his soul.As he patrols the city's fog-bound, tech-gutted streets one last time, Nick crosses paths with violent criminals, old friends, a lost young woman, and the ghosts of his own past. But what he doesn't expect are the small moments—of connection, of reckoning, of fleeting grace—that might offer him a sliver of redemption.A "e;fascinating,"e; "e;poetic,"e; and elegiac vignette that captures the weary poetry of a city and the men who try to hold it together.