A policeman stands over a man in the back of a pickup truck. He shoots the man three times in the dark. He looks up and aims his semi-automatic handgun at a woman sitting in the driver's seat as she watches in terror through the rear window. She screams. He fires one more time. This time the bullet travels directly at her head. Exploding glass splatters her face, neck and shoulders. His body rages with adrenaline and he yells, "Get out of the truck!" She falls out of the truck and onto the ground crying. She calls out for her boyfriend in the truck bed. The officer growls, "Shut up!" Her face and neck are covered in blood. She may bleed out on the ground leaving no witnesses. She is identified as the twenty-seven year old mother of a boy and a girl. She is also a scholarship student at the local state university. Armed men force her into a chair and handcuff her to a table. Homicide detectives interrogate her asking the same questions over and over. They show no concern for her unarmed boyfriend. Instead all they seem to want or need is for her to confess to some crime. This novel is based on a true story which was documented in court records.