The Blue Edge Of Midnight

Description for THE BLUE EDGE OF MIDNIGHT by Jonathon King:

On a night that will haunt him forever, ex-cop Max Freeman killed a twelve-year-old child in self-defense in a Philadelphia shootout. Since then he has lived a solitary existence on the edge of the Florida Everglades, where he answers to no one save the demons tormenting his conscience. But when he finds the corpse of a child along a shadowy riverbank, he's pulled back into the twisted maze of law and order -- as a murder suspect. Now Freeman has no choice but to hunt down a killer who has committed the unthinkable--even if it takes him to the darkest places of the soul....

This is #1 in a Max Freeman Novel.