GUILT DRIVEN

By Casey Cofer

Fed up with the failure of the criminal justice system, Americans have come to the conclusion that the system they’ve put their faith in for so long just isn’t working. They demand a solution to the increasing rate of violent crime victimizing innocent people. Their outcry calls for the Constitution to be revamped, giving law enforcement more latitude to defeat crime. The change comes in the form of a new and radical way of putting a crimp on the rising rate of recidivism through the formation of controversial WANT divisions within the police department. These highly trained and clandestine officers are federally sanctioned to bring in or put down the most vile, psychotic, and irredeemable criminals ever to avoid arrest. Everything seems to working in favor of the change, until one officer discovers nothing good ever comes without a high price. 385 pages.

AN UNCONTROLLABLE RISE IN VIOLENT CRIMES PROMPTS THE FEDERAL

GOVERNMENT TO TAKE DRASTIC ACTIONS

It’s unforgivable how a sense of a diffidence, sympathy, and denial has allowed the most heinous criminals ever to proliferate in what we proudly extol to be the greatest country on earth. Daily headlines never lack for subject matter with shock value. Court dockets are booked solid with repeat offenders. Jails are overcrowded with the worst criminals who have finally reached society’s limit of tolerance. Public pressure on the federal government has instituted new criminal justice measures to combat the problem so the public can sleep safely at night.

Local law enforcement agencies are sanctioned to create WANT divisions for the purpose of pursuing, apprehending, and putting down the most violent and vile criminals who refuse to comply with justice. These officers are highly trained and committed to do what the majority of society would rather not admit is necessary to put their world back in order.

Angel Soren is one such WANT officer, a rare woman in a mostly male-dominated unit. She has the wherewithal to chamber a round, sight down a rifle, and pull the trigger on an unsuspecting criminal on the lam—if that’s what’s written in the judicial order of execution. Her ideology of crime and punishment is entrenched in the reality of seeing the suffering of victims day in and day out, and knowing that the old ways of bringing about justice aren’t working anymore.

This is gritty, hard-hitting fiction, written by new and upcoming author, Casey Cofer. In a voice spoken by the main character, the story revolves not around the mindless and repetitive executions of one criminal after another, but the ramifications of one execution that leaves Angel Soren grappling with her own guilt. This work will have readers recognizing their hidden acknowledgement that something has to be done to stop a runaway train that has already derailed from civilization, and that the way of rectifying society might not be something they are willing to admit is necessary.

Whether readers pick up this book with a predisposition against capital punishment or an open mind, they are sure to have their beliefs taken on a roller coaster ride betwixt and between the moral quandary that comes with the prospect of taking a life. In the end, they may find themselves of a mindset they never thought themselves capable of and not wanting to disclose in public.