DC By the Book

Excerpt: He accelerates and the Taurus's engine pings and groans. The light is red before he ever gets to the crosswalk. He looks left. The cross street is empty. He looks right. The white SUV seems to come out of the western sun and slams into his car, caving both passenger doors and sliding Cassidy's Taurus across the northbound lanes, where it comes to a rest against the brick wall of the Georgetown Public Library.