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First Night on Patrol
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ISBN13: 9798245750637
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 26 2026
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 26 2026
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In a town where everyone knows your name, the badge doesn't just give authority-it takes something in return.
Joseph Wilkens waited years to earn his place on the force. Now, fresh out of the academy and riding with his lifelong best friend as his FTO, he learns that small-town policing offers no clean lines. Every call carries history. Every decision echoes through backyards, churches, and family dinner tables.
Joseph Wilkens waited years to earn his place on the force. Now, fresh out of the academy and riding with his lifelong best friend as his FTO, he learns that small-town policing offers no clean lines. Every call carries history. Every decision echoes through backyards, churches, and family dinner tables.
Domestic disputes involve people he grew up with. Old friends test the limits of loyalty. Rumors spread faster than radio traffic. And the town watches closely-measuring not just what Joseph does, but what kind of man he's becoming.
When a volatile domestic call mirrors one his father once responded to years earlier, Joseph faces the truth no academy lesson prepared him for: the same call can end in very different ways-and you don't always get to choose which one you carry home.
First Night on Patrol is a gritty, intimate look at a rookie officer's first year on the street, where restraint can cost friendships, silence can become inherited, and doing the right thing doesn't guarantee peace.
Because in a small town, the hardest part of wearing the badge isn't enforcing the law-
It's living with it
When a volatile domestic call mirrors one his father once responded to years earlier, Joseph faces the truth no academy lesson prepared him for: the same call can end in very different ways-and you don't always get to choose which one you carry home.
First Night on Patrol is a gritty, intimate look at a rookie officer's first year on the street, where restraint can cost friendships, silence can become inherited, and doing the right thing doesn't guarantee peace.
Because in a small town, the hardest part of wearing the badge isn't enforcing the law-
It's living with it
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