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EXTREME COP:CHICAGO PD is the TRUE STORY of JERRY ARDOLINO, the wildest, most violent cop in the history of the Chicago Police Department and that would mean: in the history of the world. JERRY ARDOLINO is the book's author and it is the first true, full-length on-going story about the Chicago Police written by an insider. It has never been done before. JERRY'S spree of violence and wired behavior; his enjoyment of engaging in fast outlaw acts almost every hour of duty lasted nearly five years. It has never happened before and could never happen again. The language is very strong; his erotic and sexual encounters with hot, beautiful willing women are "meltdown-level"; his partners' street-sex encounters with female beauties are raw and real; and the violence is as graphic as it gets in print.This is not a "tell all" complaint book. On the contrary,EXTREME COP: CHICAGO PD glorifies the violent ways of the Chicago Police; you experience "living" JERRY'S ways of fast violence; fast driving; the heavy partying; the breaking open of constitutional law to suit each case and the breaking of criminals' skulls and body parts. Jerry wrote most of EXTREME COP: CHICAGO PD in 1999 and completed it on through the millennium. Word got out in literary circles and recent works were attempted by others; nothing one can't glean from newspapers and--they don't contain ARDOLINO's story. Nobody has ever given you the REALinside stories of the Chicago Police. A Gritty and stylishly-written TRUE STORY taking you: inside the violent acts, bloody nights, massive and lightning-fast destruction of property and people. You feel the wet heat of an erotic female cop's sexual acts; the cold steel of JERRY's Magnum; the hard hits of his police baton: JERRY ARDOLINO is ALL REAL.


About the Author

Jerry Ardolino, author of the fact-based fiction: THE SHANG PIRATE LEGACY also writes non-fiction, true crime. His first book: EXTREME COP: CHICAGO PD was shown and quoted in the editorial section of PLAYBOY and has received numerous reviews and publicity. THE SHANG PIRATE LEGACY is Jerry s first fictional novel.


Jerry is well-qualified to write a novel about triad gangs, violence and global crime and as you will see herein: he is a true renaissance man and possesses something every writer of fiction needs: first-hand knowledge and experiences in many facets of different ways of life.


Jerry is an Ex-Chicago Police Officer who served approximately 5 years in the Chicago Police Department. He had the wildest, most violent career in the history of that which means, he s the wildest, most violent cop in the history of the world.


Jerry graduated the Chicago Police Academy in 1973, attended Chicago City College on a U.S. Department of Justice grant studying Behavioral Science and Law and graduated the nationally recognized combined Police Science/Criminology Program of the Chicago Police Training Division and Northwestern University. And there is a lot more to this author than knowing how to handle blue steel, rough-up tough criminals, fast-swing a baton and a wheel a fast squad car. While on the department he became an arms and munitions dealer as well as a police and military leathergoods manufacturer. His business grew to large proportions in the first six months and he made the decision to leave the department. He branched off into the western leather business shortly thereafter and in the 1980s formed a separate company dealing in antiques, rare books, antique, swords, and continuing a tradition: fine jewelry. He is a recipient of the prestigious GIA Diamonds Certificate.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 372 pages
  • Publisher: Xlibris Corporation (December 5, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1425741320
  • ISBN-13: 978-1425741327
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.8 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #509,859 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Extreme Cop: Chicago PD, January 4, 2008
I don't think I have ever read an autobiography of the day to day workings of a police officer, whether it be the Chicago police or anywhere else. This book is a keen insight to the Chicago police back in the late sixties early seventies. For those of you who remember the Democratic Presidential Convention of 1968, this story has a very familiar ring to it. Most police stories rely upon a single event or a series of related events building to a climax. This book has so many major events in it that they almost seem mundane after awhile. Ardolino's story goes so fast, it takes your breath away. You take one of these incidents today and you have a major police scandal.

Ardolino's Bio reads like an adventure novel. So much so, that I decided to investigate. By telephone, Internet and e-Mails I found out that if anything, he has omitted some of his other accomplishments. It is no wonder that this author writes well and holds a reader's interest. Especially in the way Extreme Cop is written. The Preface mentions that the book was done uncut and in the way that the author would tell it while it was happening. What I found out was that the typos, wild punctuation and terse prose are in there because the author transcribed from actual diaries, and napkin notes he kept during the incidents. Yes, there are some typos but, there are typos in The Sun Also Rises, The Odessa File and in My Wicked, Wicked Ways to name only a few of the hundreds of books with typos or sentences that lead to nowhere. In no way does the grittiness and uncut form [obviously purposely done] detract from the flow of the powerful narrative in Extreme Cop: Chicago PD. The sex scenes are explicit and will wake anybody up. The violence is to me, very real.

The cops back in the 1970's and before may have been a law onto themselves; however they kept the streets clean of petty street gangs and thugs. Now we are overrun by the lawless and the legal system. To prevent one innocent victim, we have a legal system that goes out of their way to protect the criminals in order to make sure there is not one innocent person among hundreds is convicted. I live in Tokyo and it reminds me of my Illinois home town back in the fifties and early sixties. The cops did not mess around back then and people were safer. Although the author may appear to be brash and unfeeling at times, I think he comes across as a very sincere and to-the-heart Chicago cop. Very entertaining.
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