The Code

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Brad Shade has been just about everywhere hockey is played. And even though he’s now retired, he’s still living out of a suitcase, and still taking down names and numbers as a scout for L.A. But when a coaching legend turns up brutally murdered after an old-timers charity game, the job of scouting the local phenom begins to feel a lot like investigating the killing of the kid’s grizzled old coach. When the killer makes the mistake of going after Shade’s girlfriend, he soon learns that guys like Brad don’t stay in the league because they’re good—they stick around because they’re smart enough to know what needs to get done, and just mean enough to actually do it.