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Conflict in Blue
The Marissa Ortega Story
Book Overview
The book, Conflict in Blue: The Marissa Ortega Story, begins where D. E. Gray's second book, True to the Blue, left off. Marissa Ortega, the daughter of deceased police officer Sergio Ortega, who was fired from the Los Angeles Police Department for a bogus charge of filing a false police report— a charge he was later cleared of— is now an L.A.P.D. officer herself.
Background and Motivation
After witnessing the murder of her father by a ruthless Hispanic gangbanger when she was just nine years old, she now has a score to settle, not just with the notorious Avenues Street Gang who reigns down terror on the citizens in L.A.'s Northeast Division where she works, but with the LAPD itself.
Conflict and Challenges
With her aggressive approach in dealing with the local street gangs, she soon finds herself, along with her partner, on a Mexican Mafia hit list after three Avenues Street Gang members die, one of them the little brother of an imprisoned Mafioso, at the conclusion of a violent police pursuit. Even though she is on a Mafia hit list, Marissa sets out to find the gang member who killed her uncle before she was born, who is now out of prison and back on the streets with EMERO status and considered a parolee at large.
Escalating Violence and Teamwork
Things get worse when the hit on Marissa and her partner by gang members goes awry, resulting in the accidental murder of a family member and her partner's wife. Marissa eventually teams up with Bryce Stevens, a detective assigned to the Robbery Homicide Division of the LAPD. Together, they devise a plan to trick Emilio Soto, aka Whitey, a bumbling Avenues gang member, into becoming a confidential informant, hoping he will lead them to the individual who killed her uncle and to the gang members responsible for her family member's and her partner's wife's deaths.
Climax and Race Against Time
It becomes a race between Marissa Ortega and Jorge Mendoza, the Avenues Street Gang leader, to see who will stay alive long enough before the other is brought to justice.
