Beat Cop

From Jack Chase, author of Made in America and one of the defining new voices in American fiction, comes one of his earliest and most haunting works.Nick Demming has worn the badge for thirty-two years. On his final day with the SFPD, he's forced to confront everything he's lost along the way—his family, his purpose, and maybe his soul.As he patrols the city's fog-bound streets one last time, Nick faces down violent criminals, broken systems, and the ghosts of his own past. But what he doesn't expect are the small moments—of connection, of reckoning, of fleeting grace—that might offer him a sliver of redemption.Beat Cop is a stark, elegiac vignette that captures the weary poetry of a city and the men who try to hold it together. One of the first stories published by the creator of Made in America, it reveals the earliest glimpses of Chase's style—lyrical, cinematic, and extraordinarily human.