Detectives Tibaldi and Nelson have rarely done anything the criminal element might worry about, so why has someone invested in their demise? The goof-off "college boys" must hunt their own killers in this humorous but uncomfortably realistic story.
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In this amateurishly written police procedural, two slothful neophyte detectives in the fictional Long Island town of Seaport, N.Y., run afoul of a Jamaican drug lord and police brass. Street cops Tree Nelson and Jimmy Tibaldi have still not passed their probationary period as detectives, but they're doing little to advance their careers. They treat their superiors with disrespect, hit the bars and come home with different women every time, and are believed (mistakenly) to be on the take. When they confront a thief on a rooftop, they really get into trouble. The man jumps to his death and his brother, Rastafarian drug dealer Gladstone Lanier, swears revenge. After Jimmy is shot in an ambush, it is up to Tree to stop Lanier and to salvage their reputations. Although Westermann is himself a policeman, in this first novel he is unable to translate his experience into a suspenseful story that conveys the many dimensions of real-life police work. What stands out about his policemen is their vulgarity, conveyed in their raunchy dialogue, crass behavior and absence of integrity.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"A life and death battle with some exceedingly vicious drug lords." -- The New York Times
"Tough, funny, ironic and real . . . makes you think you're sitting in a police locker room." -- Nelson DeMille --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
"Tough, funny, ironic and real . . . makes you think you're sitting in a police locker room." -- Nelson DeMille --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Gritty, funny, sexy and authentic. Damned-near "literary." Crime fiction doesn't get better than this. Read one of Westermann's books and you'll read them all.
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Gladstone Lanier, Lieutenant Lee, Jensen Macomber, Blake Hotel, Jimmy Tibaldi, New York, Trevor Nelson, Lieutenant Cumberstadt, Crazy Victor, Victor Guardina, Commissioner Trimble, Detective Mellon, Detective Nelson, Detective Tibaldi, Georges Crosse, Mongo Blue, Sergeant Baumgarten, Tree Nelson, Alistair Nelson, Jack Tibaldi, Long Island, Main Street, North Cinder Island, Wilfredo Aviles, Annie Sutherland New!
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Gladstone Lanier, Lieutenant Lee, Jensen Macomber, Blake Hotel, Jimmy Tibaldi, New York, Trevor Nelson, Lieutenant Cumberstadt, Crazy Victor, Victor Guardina, Commissioner Trimble, Detective Mellon, Detective Nelson, Detective Tibaldi, Georges Crosse, Mongo Blue, Sergeant Baumgarten, Tree Nelson, Alistair Nelson, Jack Tibaldi, Long Island, Main Street, North Cinder Island, Wilfredo Aviles, Annie Sutherland New!
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