Based on a movie of same title with screenplay by Robert Foster and starring Don Johnson. It’s Christmas time but for homicide detective Jerry Beck it’s not the best of times, as he’s just had a divorce. When a store is robbed, its manager shot, and a patrolling cop is brutally murdered the same night, he is assigned to find the killer. His initial query of the police database gives him Bobby Burns as suspect #1. He storms the Burns residence. John, Bobby’s younger brother who is supposed to be attending college, couldn’t tell him much, but he forces a con that ran from the house to reveal that Bobby and some friends had headed out of town. Then the chase for Bobby begins. The FBI is alerted.
The chase culminates at a secluded residence on the outskirts of Boulder, Colorado, where the convention is about to hold. Assisted by a police chief named Dixon and his men, Beck is able to storm the residence and disarm the guards and their masters. They could not find Bobby and his pals at first until they realize the existence of subterranean facilities. This is where they discover a huge armory of lethal weapons and this is where the final shoot-out takes place, that leads to the death of Bobby, his pals, as well as Bobby’s brother John who had actually been responsible for the initial robbery and cop murder.
One of the things I liked about the story is the way Dixon, the chief of police in Boulder, Colorado turned out to be a black person, and with all the skills usually reserved for whites, like piloting a helicopter. Then there was the hero Beck’s revelation of how his great-granddaddy had married his part-negro farm worker after emancipation, to debunk the racist Gebhardt’s thinking that he was as “white” as himself.
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