Contents Under Pressure A Britt Montero Novel

Britt Montero is an ace crime reporter who sleeps with a police scanner by her bedside -- and who can't keep off a hot story, even if the book has already been closed. Miami is her turf, with its sweltering nights and seething passions that can erupt without warning into mind-numbing violence. Now a black ex-football star and beloved local hero leader is dead after an alleged high-speed police chase -- and Britt's city explodes around her. The facts are hidden somewhere among the deadly lies, official cover-ups, and the vigilante crimes of rogue night shift cops. And Britt's determined to pursue the truth through the smoking tropical wreckage -- even as it leads her perilously close to unexpected revelations of conspiracy and corruption that could burn her to the bone.Pultizer Prize winner, EDNA BUCHANAN, knows every inch of Miami pavement. A veteran journalist with more than twenty years of crime-reporting experience, she has seen the dark side of paradise -- and she illuminates it brilliantly in this riveting novel of suspense that introduces the incomparable Britt Montero.