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Marcus Tate gave the Houston Police Department twenty-eight years. They gave him a plaque, a handshake, and a death sentence.Two weeks after retiring as HPD's most decorated homicide detective, Marcus's family is massacred in a home invasion that kills his wife, his son, and his seventeen-year-old daughter. Marcus survives - barely - and begins hunting the men responsible.But every lead the department feeds him is a dead end. Every trail circles back to nowhere. And the deeper Marcus digs on his own, the more the evidence points somewhere it shouldn't: toward the badge he carried for three decades.A locked deadbolt with no forced entry. Deleted security footage traced to an HPD terminal. A witness statement that vanished from the file. A drug corridor in Third Ward that operates with protection no street gang could buy on its own.The conspiracy reaches higher than Marcus ever imagined. And the people running it have already decided how his story ends.BLUE DEBT is a searing crime thriller about institutional betrayal, a father's impossible grief, and the price of a truth that no one in power wants told.

Darryl Wayne Townsend Jr. is the author of seventeen books spanning literary fiction, thrillers, novellas, and nonfiction. His work lives in the spaces between people - the things they can't say, the things they won't say, and the things they say to the wrong person. His novels include Still Water, Rare Pull, Taylor, Glass Empire, and Heavy Load. His nonfiction includes The Catalog Mindset and Don't Blow the Bag. He is the founder of Polymath Portfolio Group LLC and hosts the podcast Wait a Minute, Bitch on Spotify. He lives in Seattle. He is not done.