Nick Swain is a paramedic answering a call in a bad neighborhood where several people have been shot when he has a gun shoved in his face and threatened with death for trying to treat one of the victims. Although he makes it through the call, the friend of another victim who died at the scene labels him a racist and threatens to kill him, too. The media then steps in to publicize all of this, and Nick's normal life is turned upside down. He begins to have panic attacks and feels like he's being followed. Andrew Carmichael, a police detective whose wounded partner Nick treated at the shooting, tries to help him cope while tracking down the two men who threatened Nick. But Nick is becoming unwound, and when a bullet is left on the dashboard of his car, he feels doomed.
This was an exciting and well written story, especially the descriptions of Nick's anxiety and fear when he has to go back into the bad neighborhood to answer another emergency and is nearly mobbed. He and Andrew connect with their high stress and dangerous jobs, and the author did well in explaining the helplessness both men feel in their situations. I'd like to read more since this is the first book in a series. 325 pages (Kindle edition).
