The writing blew me away with the first sentence. The descriptions were enough to help me picture the scene, understand the situation, but not bogged down in details that take away from the plot. Jack seems like an interesting character, and his train of thoughts was written nicely. As for the negative, the chapters ended abruptly and since they were short I had trouble identifying the time changes. I think after some more reading I would get used to it. It took me a couple minutes to realize time had passed and Jack was the chief of police, not a trooper anymore.