STOP, POLICE!: From northern England to Portsmouth: a UK police officer’s true crime memoir of policing the thin blue line in the 1990s, ending in survival and the fight to recover after brain surgery by Richard Foster

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


To start with I wasn't that impressed. The early chapters came over as disjointed anecdotes with too many exclamation marks.
It's worth pressing on though. As the narrator matures so does the writing. It's still anecdotal, but assembled into thematic chapters. It draws a vivid copper's view of street-level Pompey with all its energy, humour and grotty bits. And then .... well, things turn serious. The back cover gives a clue but I won't spoil the rest.



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