New deputy police commissioner Phil Keefe is young, idealistic and trying to survive police politics and the random violence of crime and the streets. A sudden crisis and a murderous shootout catapult him into a deadly whirlpool of political sharks and treachery. Now he is facing charges. The city he has sworn to protect is out to destroy him. The woman he loves is persuing her career just when he needs her most. And Phil Keefe is beginning the trial of his life.
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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
This latest novel by the author of Prince of the City may end by focusing on the controversy over a green Deputy Commissioner who commits accidental homicide, but it is really about the fascinating distribution and realignment of power at the top of the nation's largest police force. Foreign correspondent Phil Keefe has been selected right-hand man to New York Police Commissioner Timothy J. Egan, a small, strong-minded former police academy instructor bent on reform of the department. Keefe is coached by a sergeant who has seen awful cruelties on the streets of New York. He is suspected by top brass who fear their power slipping into his hands. And he is resented by his girlfriend, an actress whom he leaves each night to visit the city's cops at work. He is in over his head, though, when police officials saddle him with a difficult hostage negotiation that results in the death of a distraught black trucker. Daley himself is on slightly unfamiliar ground when he brings to task an ambitious senator and assistant DA. And he sometimes pushes too far his recurring theme of the cop as society's martyr. But when Daley describes working cops, he makes clear the aggravation and ugliness of their jobs. And when he examines the methods by which major police officials quietly protect their careers and extend their grasp, he writes like a dazzling pre-glasnost Kremlinologist scrutinizing small changes in photos of Soviet leaders for revealing clues.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
The hero of Daley's latest novel, Phil Keefejournalist and newly appointed deputy commissioner of the NYPD charged with enhancing the image of New York City copsaccidently shoots an enraged innocent. Keefe is so incredibly inexperienced and politically naive, it is difficult to believe he would have been appointed to such a high position. He is also shallow, superficial, and peevish. The last half of the bookKeefe's search to prove his innocence and his trialis by far the best. It is surprising that the politics and characters do not quite ring true, since Daley was a deputy police commissioner in New York City in charge of public relations in the early 1970s and is also the author of the well-received Prince of the City. A disappointment. Literary Guild Main Selection. Jean B. Palmer, Andover, Mass.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Gritty, Realistic Police Drama,
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This review is from: Man With a Gun (Hardcover)
An exciting story centered around the high echelons of the NYPD. The author, a former New York Deputy Police Commissioner, took me inside the stress, politics and drama of Police Headquarters. Daley's characters are all flesh-and-blood, caught up in circumstances beyond their control. The story centers around a new Deputy Police Commissioner that finds his well-intentioned plans go awry, placing him in great peril. A good read for those that demand more than simply a good plot.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Great Plot; Poor Execution,
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Ok - picture this: Reform minded big city police commissioner selects a trusted policy wonk to aid him in cleaning up the force. Wonk, the "Man With A Gun," dives in with both feet, and finds himself immersed in the jealousy, intrigue, and bureacracy that is a force filled with career officers. Wonk screws up by forgetting that he is not a cop, and it takes more than a badge and a gun to become one. Suspicious career officers don't help him, and set him up for failure instead. Add a streetwise police sargent as advisor, a hot and experienced mistress, and some political intrigue, and you've got yourself the makings of a great book. Someone besides Daly should have written it. I picked this up on the strength of the excellent movie Prince of the City (starring Treat Williams), which was based on a Daley novel. Well, one movie doesn't mean that the other book is so hot. Great plot and ideas - just embarrassingly stupid storytelling in places. Skip it.
5.0 out of 5 stars
An insightful look into the politics of a large police department,
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A Man with a Gun is a fine read! The characters are developed well, the story is gripping and the look inside the walls of a large city Police Department is revealing and fascinating. If you want a thought provoking book that will carry you along, spellbound, to the end, get Daley's top notch book.
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