<p class="ql-align-justify">A crime renaissance, gentrification, and racial tension between the police and the people they are sworn to protect are tearing New York City apart. Through the story of Lt. Robert Grey-tormented by the murder of his father years before-<em>The Guilty</em> follows an elite undercover unit taking down the most notorious drug gang in New York, facing revenge, and corruption within its own ranks and city hall. </p><p class="ql-align-justify">With hardnosed realism and complex characterization informed by Johnson's years with the NYPD and Homeland Security, <em>The Guilty</em> traces the similarities between Grey's unit, Derek Mason's notorious and violent drug gang that he's hunting. Both groups follow the code of the streets: whether it's the Blue Wall of Silence, or the Stop Snitching Campaign. No matter the side, in New York City, the guilty are the most protected. </p>