"COP" CONSTABLES ON PATROL [Paperback]

Pete Keenan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 2004

Constablos On Patrol is a police story centering on a recently discharged U.S. Navy veteran of World War II who commences a career as a New York City police officer in 1946. An experienced, dedicated police captain, recognizing in this new officer those qualities which he believes justifies the term New York's Finest attributed to the police force "adopts" the new recruit. The officer, exhibiting wisdom beyond his brief period of experience in the department, stumbles upon an arsonist in the act of torching a Chinese restaurant. This shoot-out sets off a startling chain of events which culminates in murder and high-level police corruption.

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About the Author

Peter J. Keenan was born on 11 July 1922 in a tenement on the west side of Manhattan at 53rd street and Ninth Avenue, an area referred to as Hell's Kitchen during the Roaring Twenties period that was later glamorized in the the Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, and Edward G. Robbinson gangster movies. His early childhood years of development were on Tenth Avenue in Chelsea, just above Greenwich village, during the Prohibition and Speakeasy era. His first job following graduation from high school was as a messenger and later as a machine operator for a blue print and reproduction firm in lower Manhattan. Shortly after his 20th birthday in 1942 he enlisted in the United states Navy and served in the South Pacific and South China sea areas as a Radioman during six war patrols on the USS Mingo, a diesel class fleet submarine. In 1946, following his discharge from the Navy at the end of world War II, he joined the New York City Police Department as a Patrolman, serving 20 years in the uniformed branch in the Borough of Manhattan. In 1967, after retiring from the police department he became a Revenue Officer and later a Special Agent, Criminal Investigator with the United States Treasury Department. From 1981 until his retirement from Federal civil service in 1989 he was assigned as the Internal Revenue Service's Intelligence Representative to the United states National Central Bureau of INTERPOL located in Washington, D.C. Over 135 countries were affiliated with this famous criminal investigative agency during that period. His assignment entailed occasional foreign travel to the international headquarters of INTERPOL at St. cloud, located outside of Paris, France, and various countries in South America and the Carribean area pursuing the investigation of international crimes and criminals. CONSTABLES ON PATROL is Mr. Keenan's initial literary effort. This is a work of fiction. Other than historical facts and events, the situations and scenes described are the creation of th

Product Details

• Paperback: 356 pages
• Publisher: AuthorHouse (December 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1418423386
• ISBN-13: 978-1418423384
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,872,475 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)