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It’s 1947, and the neon haze of Los Angeles has finally bled you both dry. After one too many close calls with Mickey Cohen’s crew and the ghosts of Mob City, Joe Teague—ex-Marine, ex-LAPD, ex-everything—packs a single duffel and your hand into a battered ’46 Ford Super Deluxe. You’re headed 3,000 miles east to Middlesex County, New Jersey, where the pines smell like home and the Raritan River runs slower than the L.A. River ever did. Joe trades his blood-stained trench for a sheriff’s star, but the war (and the mob) follow in the rearview. In the quiet precinct of a postwar mill town, Joe learns that some stains don’t wash out with distance—and that protecting the woman he loves might cost him the last clean piece of his soul.