


Having gone up against the department previously, Locatelli has been labeled a renegade – a designation he embraces. Locatelli, however, is ordered by department brass to stand down and close out the investigation. He vows to follow the evidence wherever it leads. Keough can’t help but wonder if the rounds that cut down his partner were meant for him.įirst Grade Detective and media darling Rocco Locatelli catches the case. When he discovers his partner mortally wounded, it changes everything.Īs the dust settles, Keough learns that three of the six people involved in the mission are dead. Then, on a cool fall evening, a volley of gunfire erupts outside his apartment.

He’s divorced from his wife and instead married to the bottle. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Ten years after a top-secret mission in Afghanistan, retired NYPD Detective and Navy SEAL Michael Keough finds himself about to hit rock bottom. All of the while, Keegan is unaware his every move is being watched from within his own department. Keegan's two lives come crashing together on New York's largest stage in front of a live televised audience, where Keegan must decide where his loyalty lies to a job that he loves and the people of the city of New York he has taken an oath to serve and protect, or to the cause of freedom for Northern Ireland which he has believed in his entire life. training camp, to the most inner workings of the NYPD. Set in 1995, Exceptional Merit will take you from the quiet back streets of Northern Ireland to the gritty streets of New York City from an I.R.A. James Keegan has a double life in which he has been involved with the Irish Republican Army for almost as long as he has the NYPD. All is not what it appears, however, with Lieutenant Keegan.

Keegan has solved many high profile cases during his eighteen years with the NYPD, including an imminent terrorist attack which earned him a personal thank you from the President of the United States. Lieutenant James Keegan is a highly decorated police officer assigned to the NYPD's Joint Terrorist Task Force.
