At All Times (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798295760501)

Ex-homicide detective John Talion finds the battered, bludgeoned, knee-capped body of his childhood friend, ex-boxer Yaqui Galindez, dumped outside his office. The murder is deliberate and personal. A message. Alongside the body, a photograph of a priceless synthetic diamond, the Estrella de la Muerte, and a plea for help.

Pulled back into a city that no longer wants him, Talion uncovers a violent network linking a tortured gemologist, a fixed championship fight, dirty cops, and a murdered young mother whose secret life brought her too close to the wolves.

As bodies accumulate, the crimes reveal a larger game of sexual exploitation, political blackmail, and institutional corruption. At the center stands Baltimore, where power hides behind respectability and justice bends quietly out of sight.

When an ambush leaves Talion barely alive, the message becomes clear. He is no longer investigating the conspiracy. He is part of it. Forced to choose between lust, survival, and accountability, Talion chooses all three. The cost may be his life.