One Police Plaza is the benchmark by which all novels about cops and criminals are measured. The New York Times Book Review said of its bestselling author, William J. Caunitz: "He knows more about cops and what moves them than Joseph Wambaugh or George V. Higgins." Now a new standard is set in a novel that probes the treacherous chains of command on both sides of the law -- from the drug-strangled streets of New York's Washington Heights to One Police Plaza.