Seattle-based author and  former King County prosecuting attorney Christopher T. Bayley will visit Eagle Harbor Book Company at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 17 to talk about his book “Seattle Justice: The Rise and Fall of the Police Payoff System in Seattle.”

Bayley relates in the book his own personal story when, as one of the youngest county prosecutors in the country, he embarked on a mission to finally end the system of vice and corruption that had infiltrated Seattle’s police department, municipal departments and even the mayor’s office.

In the late ‘60s, Bayley was a young lawyer with a fire in his belly to break the back of Seattle’s police payoff system, which was built on licensing of acknowledged illegal activity known as the “tolerance policy.” Against the odds, he defeated an entrenched incumbent to become King County Prosecutor and, six months into his first term, indicted a number of prominent city and police officials.

Bayley’s book shows how vice and payoffs became the rules of the game in Seattle and what it took to finally clean the city up.

Visit www.eagleharborbooks.com to learn more about this and other upcoming author events.