The Outlier: The Art of Getting Away With It

Cole Carter doesn't belong here. Not in the State Police Academy. Not in the elite selection. Definitely not in the state capital. He's the kid from the back row — the one who never paid for a meal, scammed a free ride home by staging a petition outside the Capitol building, and made money in a school designed to train the privileged. But when Director Samuel Shepard travels over a hundred miles to recruit him personally, Cole finds himself pulled into a world where the stakes are real: dismembered bodies, cold cases rotting in folders, a city that glitters on the surface and festers beneath. In a system built for people with connections, Cole has only two things: instinct and nerve. It might be enough. It might get him killed. Or it might make him the best detective the state has ever seen.

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