The Grinding Wheel

Federal prosecutor Jeff Trask has been given the case against WaShaun "Gloomy" Stewart, a street gang leader who had already killed five members of rival gangs before he turned eighteen. At the same time, a second killer, whom investigators call The Butcher, has been abducting women from the Kansas City area, murdering them, and scattering their remains in and around the city.

Trask is teamed with the Career Criminal Unit of the Kansas City Police Department, a joint task force of local officers and federal agents. He is caught off guard when Stewart escapes custody, and the two cases suddenly collide. After one of the task force's female detectives is seized by The Butcher, Trask and the unit must work against the clock to rescue her and stop the killings.

Retired federal prosecutor Marc Rainer, who draws on thirty years of courtroom and investigative experience, wrote this book as another installment in the Jeff Trask Crime Drama Series.