Death Runner

Jake Smith is back, starting over as a rookie patrol officer in Arkansas. He is not welcomed with open arms. Everyone in the department has a cousin or friend passed up because of his hiring—thanks to his friend's influence, he secured the job and moved to town from San Diego.

Smith gets assigned to the University of Arkansas campus amidst anti Viet Nam protests and Black movement riots. It all breaks loose after a student leader gets murdered. As a rookie, Officer Smith is not involved in the investigation, though despite opposition, he inserts himself.

With drugs and alcohol free following through the Kappa Sigma fraternity, Arkansas Lieutenant Governor's son gets hooked on cocaine. Things really heat up for Smith after the student overdoses. Is it an accident or murder?

The outlaw motorcycle gang, Belial Bikers, end up in a gang war with the locals, resulting in the New Year's Eve Massacre at Kats, a local gentleman's club. Smith gets forced to leave his reporter girlfriend at a party and assist in the operation.

Someone assassinated a local drug dealer and set his house on fire. Stripper Lulu Love, his wife, is the number one suspect and goes on the lam. As soon as Detective Knight meets an untimely death, Officer Smith gets promoted back to detective grade and partnered up with his nemesis. It is up to them to work things out and investigate both crimes, the student overdose, and the drug dealer's assignation. Are they somehow intertwined? And what does private investigator Arthur English, a retired MI6 agent, have to do with it? Can Smith and his partner escape the investigator's boogie-trapped warehouse?