Kings of the Street

Sure, as a Camden NJ cop Denni had made enemies. Mostly punks and thugs that didn’t have the juice, or the balls to come back on him. But when he killed the sons of a Camden drug lord in an encounter that left him nearly dead, he made an enemy with a very long memory.

Not above street justice, when the drug lord put a hit out on Denni and his partner he met with a mysterious "accident" that left him crippled.

Wyatt, "Denni" Dennison, now an officer with the State Intensive Supervision Program (ISP), having rehabilitated himself and his career, finds his life suddenly spiraling out of control. His “fled” count spikes dramatically. As more and more of his wards go missing he comes under suspicion from the County Sheriff’s department. When his fleds start turning up tortured and dead the scrutiny intensifies, and the city PD hauls him in for questioning. While Denni is busy orchestrating his own private investigation in the hopes of clearing his name, his life-long friend, Jason Peirce, goes missing, and a new suspicion of a love triangle gone wrong arises.

Desperate to clear his name and find his friend, Denni turns to his former partner and best friend, Rocco Virgilio, and a street wise ISP ‘graduate’, Pink. Pink, however, is also a recidivist criminal, and Denni soon finds himself in over his head. When Denni’s girlfriend, Meghan, gets abducted right under his nose, the perpetrator of these events is revealed to be Booker Winstead, the crippled former drug lord. The chase is on along the Camden waterfront, leading across the Delaware river to the rusting hulk of the once famous SS United States, now a dilapidated luxury liner stripped bare to her structure, but housing the answers to Denni’s dilemma.

The character of Denni, and the intimate knowledge of life on the streets of Camden are based on the career of co-author Stuart Smith, an ISP Officer in Camden for over 14 years.