D.A. Lamont has a special job for Garano. As part of a new public relations campaign about the dangers of declining neighborhoods, she¿ sending him to Watertown to "come up with a drama," and she thinks she knows just the case that will serve. Garano is very skeptical, because he knows that Watertown is also the home base for a loose association of municipal police departments called the FRONT, set up in order that they dont have to be so dependent on the state, much to Lamont¿ anger. He senses a much deeper agenda here, but he has no idea just how deep it goes. In the days that follow, he♯ðl find that Lamont¿ task, and the places it leads him, will resemble a house of mirrors, everywhere he turns, he¿ not quite sure if what he¿ seeing is true.