Kevin Maher, working in conjunction with the FBI, the NYPD and the Secret Service, has helped solve more than a dozen homicides, put a regiment of Mafia soldiers behind bars, and plugged a high volume Columbia-Miami-New York cocaine pipeline. After a cop helped Maher avoid a second jail term in 1974, Maher began a dangerous undercover career that spanned two decades.
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Kipps (Out of Focus) deftly labels Maher an "excitement junkie," and the aptness of that term is clear from the first paragraph of this high-speed bio. From a broken home, Maher early became addicted to fast cars, and at 17, driving a stolen car, he led police on a wild chase from the Bronx in New York City to the Catskills. For this he got a prison sentence of up to four years. After escape and re-incarceration, he had the good fortune to encounter detective Jim Doherty, who became a second father to him. He then built a career as a confidential informant for various police departments, the FBI and the DEA. His fascination with fast cars continuing, he met at a drag-racing strip the scion of one of Colombia's drug families and for several years was a serious cocaine addict whose habit wrecked his first two marriages and derailed his career as an informant. Eventually he conquered his addiction and now works for a security firm in New Jersey. From all the derring-do here emerges the portrait of a man who never grew up. First serial to Penthouse.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"Fast moving and entertaining, Cop Without A Badge presents an inside look at the intangible relationship between a police officer and a paid informant." --Robert Creighton, Former Police Commissioner, Suffolk County, New York
"A giant read in the tradition of true crime book, Cop Without A Badge sets the stage for an awesome cinematic experience." --Chris Noth --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
"A giant read in the tradition of true crime book, Cop Without A Badge sets the stage for an awesome cinematic experience." --Chris Noth --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Screenwriter/Producer/Author Charles Kipps has won an Emmy, a Peabody, and an Edgar Award.
Kipps' film credits include Fat Albert, a feature film for Twentieth Century Fox co-written with Bill Cosby, and independent film Frame of Mind.
His television credits include Exiled: A Law & Order Movie (NBC), Little Bill (Nickelodeon), Fatherhood (Nickelodeon), The Cosby Mysteries (NBC), Columbo (ABC), and Law & Order: Criminal Intent (NBC).
His early career as a journalist, included a stint as Features Editor for Variety. He is the author of two non-fiction books, Out of Focus and Cop Without A Badge.
Kipps was awarded seven gold records writing and producing songs for artists such as Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, and former Temptation lead singer David Ruffin.
Kipps' film credits include Fat Albert, a feature film for Twentieth Century Fox co-written with Bill Cosby, and independent film Frame of Mind.
His television credits include Exiled: A Law & Order Movie (NBC), Little Bill (Nickelodeon), Fatherhood (Nickelodeon), The Cosby Mysteries (NBC), Columbo (ABC), and Law & Order: Criminal Intent (NBC).
His early career as a journalist, included a stint as Features Editor for Variety. He is the author of two non-fiction books, Out of Focus and Cop Without A Badge.
Kipps was awarded seven gold records writing and producing songs for artists such as Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, and former Temptation lead singer David Ruffin.
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115 of 128 people found the following review helpful:
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this book is not about Danielle/Beverly,
This review is from: Cop Without a Badge: The Extraordinary Undercover Life of Kevin Maher (Hardcover)
if you are buying this book to know about Beverly Staub role in the story, you can find excerpts of it on the internet. You dont need to spend a single dollar just to read the few parts of the book where she is being mention.
296 of 341 people found the following review helpful:
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Try "Cop without his facts straight",
By A Customer
This review is from: Cop Without a Badge: The Extraordinary Undercover Life of Kevin Maher (Hardcover)
Just what kind of fact checking was actually done on this book anyway? Kevin Maher always has and always will be known as a snake and for anyone to take his word at face value is incomprehensible. Kevin, I hope you are reading this. A set of facts as simple as those surrounding the death of your father you have distorted to suit you and make you look like a superhero. Your father did NOT die 8/9/74 the day you were released from prision as your story so eloquently puts it, with you rushing to his side just a minute too late. Your father died Aug. 9 of 1977 of a heart attack on the subway. You would not take care of the burial arrangements so your uncle Ron had to purchase a plot in Fairview Cemetary in NJ to bury him where he rests today, left out the part about how you got your Uncle Patrick kicked off the force and had the nerve to show up for his wake. You always were and are, a slimeball. This book is a farce.
113 of 133 people found the following review helpful:
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Cop without a Badge,
By Brescia "Brescia" (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cop Without a Badge: The Extraordinary Undercover Life of Kevin Maher (Hardcover)
This book was good, but not $189.00. good! Funny after people watched "Housewifes of New Jersey" and talked about one of the cast members being in it, the price shot up. Belive me it is not worth $189.00.
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