The Tunnel: Drug Dealers Are Missing in Boston. It's Not a Bad Thing, But a Good Thing! But What is Making Them Disappear? [Paperback]

Peter Mars (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1998 | ISBN-10: 1585002518 | ISBN-13: 978-1585002511

Drug dealers are missing in Boston. It's not a bad thing, but a good thing! But what is making them disappear?

The Tunnel is a fast-paced novel about how the men in blue dispose of drug dealers in the City of Boston. Author Peter Mars, a former police officer in Boston knows the streets -- the drug trade and criminals on them, and the labyrinths of abandoned tunnels beneath them. Many cops in Boston and elsewhere do their best to battle the influence of drug dealers, but some look the other way. Others, the heroes of The Tunnel, decided to eliminate drug dealers by becoming judge, jury and executioner of those who are destroying society. The Tunnel is the gripping story of one such cop, Frank Conley. Conley discovers a cache of money during a routine fire investigation of a burned out drug laboratory. Since the money is unknown to anyone but himself and the dead criminals, he decides to use it to finance his own operation to rid the streets of the dealers. Conley is a man who believes his job is to make the world a better place to live, and this unexpected windfall becomes the financing for his plan. He, and several trusted men in his division, take on the mission of ridding the city of a few bad men. They buy a building with a cellar door that leads to one of the city's abandoned tunnels, and the officers begin to deal with crime and criminals on their own terms. If dealers are vanishing from the streets, is anyone sorry?

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A creative and innovative plot line, not unusual to the wishful thinking of those in law enforcement who find our society prey to a non-responsive and ineffectual criminal justice system." -- Creton Samellas, Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation

"Amusing, clever, accurate in detail, The Tunnel offers a factual account of life on the streets in one of the country's busiest cities where cops see it all -- the heartaches, the comedies, the excitement, the perversions. The Tunnel also offers a startling remedy to a never-ending problem." -- Jeremiah Courteney, Superintendent [ret.] Boston Police

"Mars pulls in the reader from the first page. One feels compelled to see where each chapter will lead." -- Tom Kelley, Federal Bureau of Investigation --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

From the Back Cover

In an age when the law sometimes seems to favor the worst of criminals, a few Boston cops are fed up with the system. Drug dealers and thugs rule the neighborhoods and prey on the innocent and not-so-innocent. A routine fire in a crack house gives Officer Frank Conley an idea and the cash to make it work. In the fast-paced story, Frank and a trusted few cops buy a building with a back door that leads to one of the city's abandoned tunnels, and the officers begin to deal with crime and criminals on their own terms. And, if dealers are vanishing from the streets, is anyone sorry?

The Tunnel is an action-packed adventure that is so real that you will wonder if it isn't all true. After all, author Peter Mars is a thirty-year police veteran with stories to tell from the beat. And under the streets of Boston, where dealers operate, are abandoned tunnels... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 292 pages
• Publisher: Authorhouse (December 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1585002518
• ISBN-13: 978-1585002511
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,542,722 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What is fiction and What is not?, June 9, 2000

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Jack polidoro - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Tunnel: Drug Dealers Are Missing in Boston. It's Not a Bad Thing, But a Good Thing! But What is Making Them Disappear? (Paperback)

Peter Mars has taken the reader through a series of scenarios that if real would shock any Bostonian! Having worked in Cambridge and knowing the surrounding towns that encompass to plot, one wonders what is potentailly real or not real in this shocker! Mars'30 years and experience in Police work in Boston shines in the graphic description of real life police experiences. You just know that he was there for some of this fiction! The creativeness of the expository in the various scenes as well as the main character's "first person" descriptions of a cop's feasible day to day routine puts the reader in the driver's seat of the patrol car. The two part sectioning of the book was intriguing and became a late "hook" for me. The first "hook" was one third into the book.. drama in the tunnel. Not knowing that remnant caverns of Boston's subway (the oldest in the US- the MTA, before the MBTA) existed, the author has created for the reader his imagination of what might be going on below the streets of Boston today. A must read for people that who like police action and envision justice prevailing when the legal system loopholes allow for repeat offenders to end up back on the street to prey on the public...

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Tunnel of a Cop's Mind..., August 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Tunnel (Paperback)

Mr Mars' "The Tunnel" is a suspenseful book with an exciting and plausible concept. Being a New Englander, I especially like the historic setting of the book and the history of the tunnel system that really exists! I liked the colorful characters and found myself reading faster to find out what would happen next! I also think the book strongly reflects a former cop's wishful thinking, the frustration of a job where you constantly lay your life on the line and the bad guys are let off by our inept judicial system. The book gets graphic in parts and you can't help but cheer for the cops and the way they deal with the slimy drug dealers. I eagerly await Mr Mars' next book!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars What can I say...?, September 12, 2000

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Sherri Tibbetts (Farmington, Maine USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Tunnel (Paperback)

It was a great book! I would have given it 5 stars based on story alone, but there are some editing problems. Not the author's fault of course, but it can possibly make it a bit harder to read than his other book "A Taste for Money." this book really gives you something to think about. While Mars' second book is about a good cop gone bad, this book makes it much harder to judge the cops either way. True, they are taking the law into their own hands, but when the law stops working as it should, is this really bad......?

It definitly is a "must read" much as I dislike cliche terms. I am not much of a "true crime" or mystery fan, but these were wonderful. Captivating, thought provoking. A good story and a question all in one. Everything a really good book should be!