the front Author:patricia cornwell d. a. lamont has a special job for garano. as part of a new public relations campaign concerning the dangers of declining neighborhoods, she sending him to watertown to come up with a "drama" and she thinks she knows just the case that will serve. garano is very skeptical, because he knows that watertown is also the home base for a loose associa... more »tion of municipal police depts called the FRONT,set up so that they don't have to be so dependent on the state« less