Growing up in the 70's in West Baltimore, there was a group of 'Nam Vets who formed a group called Black October. They patrolled the streets. If you committed a heinous crime, YOU DISAPPEARED! Where I grew up was crime free for about 9 months, until the police stepped in and shut down the group.....

As the drug business spread its tendrils through the city of Baltimore in the 1970s, a shadowy vigilante group emerged threatening to fight the narcotics trade with street justice. And in the cavernous parking garage of a non-descript apartment building Black October did just that. Gunned down was State Delegate Turk Scott, a consummate political insider who had just been indicted for bringing ten kilos of heroin into the city. Tasked with solving the crime was former Baltimore Homicide Lieutenant Stephen Tabeling. The veteran cop takes the reader inside the investigation of one of the most notorious murders in charm city history. A deep and compelling look at the emerging drug business that would engulf the city in violence for decades.