"There are private eyes and private eyes, but in New York City there's only one Shaft. He's the loner. The rock-existentialist from Harlem. The beautiful Black with soul, guts, and hormones. Shaft's the name and the game. So cool he can toss a man out a third-floor window because he doesn't like the shape of his shoulder pads... So hot his bed-record makes Mike Hammer look sissy... So tough he doesn't know when he's dead, and damned if he'll die ......

This true-crime police procedural is the riveting story of the racially-motivated serial killings that terrorized San Francisco from 1973 to 1974 and how they were solved. Code named the Zebra Murders, the case involved a series of random violent attacks by African-American men against whites, resulting in fifteen deaths. Author Prentice Earl Sanders, the SFPD's first African-American police chief and one of the lead detectives on the case, takes...