The Domino Effect — Mark Joseph

Young, happily married, and admired by his colleagues, Nick Mitchell is on the fast track through the police ranks. Working as a field sergeant during a narcotics operation, Mitchell is forced to kill a suspect in order to save another officer. Following the incident, his family is killed in an apparent automobile accident. Months after taking a medical pension, a blood-encrusted medal is delivered with a note indicating it was no accident. Mitchell soon discovers the medal is an invitation for vengeance. He is offered a psychologically damaged policeman's dream job -- eliminating violent criminals skirting the judicial system on technicalities. All he has to do is train…and die. Assuming the role of “Archangel,” Mitchell journeys through a world of political corruption, retribution and fanaticism. While plying his new trade, Mitchell inadvertently uncovers an assassination plot against the President of the United States -- masterminded by a drug lord, a United States senator and a Federal magistrate. It is up to Archangel to stop them.