Even more to the point, I’m not sure I could have continued to live after going through what Channing and his previous partner Alex dealt with. Dramatic, dangerous cases being solved by extraordinary men and women trying to maintain an emotional detachment from the victims and the perpetrators…I personally could never do it. I wouldn’t know from experience, but I imagine it must be very difficult to be a cop. The details are important because every cut is lethal. Pay attention throughout this heart-pounding pursuit.

With each chapter of this thriller representing one of the 12 steps of addiction recovery, Measure Twice is a story of personal struggle, revenge, and the search for redemption. In order to stop the killing, Channing will have to pull his life together and come to terms with a secret that is tearing him apart. Channing learns the killer is patient, methodical, and precise. When the body of a city official is discovered in a public location, the entire city of Pittsburgh bears witness to a form of evil that is difficult to comprehend. Following a failed suicide attempt, Channing - a former distance runner - decides his life must have some meaning and the only way he can put the pieces back together is to break free of his addiction and commit acts of redemption. Ever since he and his partner were brutally tortured by a sadistic murderer, his life has spun out of control. His alcoholism may have already cost him his marriage and now threatens to sweep away his sanity. Pittsburgh Homicide Detective Jackson Channing is struggling to break free from his own addiction. In order to commit the atrocities necessary to spread his message of justice, he must change his ways and become the evil he has always abhorred.

Now with his wife dead and city officials to blame, Mayton is out for revenge. In his particular case, the drug of choice is religion. Lester Mayton is struggling to break free from his addiction.

Measure Twice by J.J. Hensley