Review
Cop Tales 2000 is the real deal. The voices and the lives of real cops--sometimes funny, sometimes dark, often adrenaline-drenched and always full of hard-won knowledge--shine from these pages. Real cops--and real writers, too. -- SJ Rozan, author of Stone Quarry
During my 35 years in law enforcement, I have often said that if you could be so fortunate as to be exposed to police officers and the tales they could and would tell if given the opportunity, you would be in the presence of potential literary magnificence, if not Pulitzer material.
During my 35 years in law enforcement, I have often said that if you could be so fortunate as to be exposed to police officers and the tales they could and would tell if given the opportunity, you would be in the presence of potential literary magnificence, if not Pulitzer material.
Cop Tales 2000 has made me a prophet. The intelligence, humor and litereary ability of these writers displayed so brilliantly by the publishers has made be proud to be a part of both professions. -- Joe Coffey, author of The Vatican Connection, Winner of the 1982 Edgar Allen Poe Award, and The Coffey Files, 1992 Edgar Allen Poe Award Nominee
About the Author
Contributor Paul Bishop is the head of the Sex Crimes and Major Assaults Unit of the LAPD and author of 9 novels, including Tequila Mockingbird, Kill Me Again, Twice Dead and Chalk Whispers. Ed(ward) Dee spent 20 years on the NYPD walking the streets of the South Bronx before retiring as a lieutenant with a "suitcase full of stories" he had to write, including his four novels: 14 Peck Slip, Bronx Angel, Little Boy Blue and Nightbird. Jim DeFilippi served as a military policeman before picking up the pen to write Blood Sugar and Duck Alley. Dan Mahoney retired as a captain after a career in the NYPD. He supplements his work as a private eye by writing books, including Black and White, Hyde, Once In Never Out, Edge of the City and Detective First Grade. Editors Liz Martinez DeFranco, Marilyn Olsen and Keith Bettinger are successful police magazine writers and editors, and all three have books of their own scheduled for publication early in the new millenium.
