Reckless Indifference

NEW HAMPSHIRE'S Julie Bigg Veazey explores the timely issue in her new novel, Reckless Indifference, surrounding the failure of the criminal-justice system to protect the innocent. She sets up a landscape crackling with tension and a variety of self-interested na ve characters that generate both sympathy and dislike. Tony Deluca, a small town cop with scheming ambition to ingratiate himself both with his father, the mayor, and with his chief, targets Eric Nordblum, a mild-mannered Everyman who is then ambushed by the legal system and whose life as he had known it is ruined. Reckless Indifference presents a recognizable world with terror on a different level in this tale of the collateral damage of tangled relationships and the bitter anguish of many lives and players spinning out of control.