Vice Cop: My Twenty-Year Battle With New York's Dark Side

by William McCarthy

The authentic, intensely personal story of twenty-year veteran Bill McCarthy and his one-man war against crime as former head of the toughest, dirtiest, most dangerous police unit on earth: New York's Public Morals Division--New York Vice!

An insider's gritty portrait of life on streets in the Big Apple. From the filthiest drug dens and sex shops to the highest levels of organized crime and government corruption, McCarthy has seen it all and tells it straight. About the dirty cops who deal drugs and kill for hire; the pornographers who traffic their young children; the underworld bosses who really run the city and the public officials who let them. It's all here. And it's all true.

Genres: True Crime

Paperback

First published April 1, 1991

Reviews

[Mickey Bits · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this, even though it predates 9/11 and the rest of history and changes in society that have happened since the 90s. I feel like I was sitting down with an old-salt cop for coffee and he's recounting the exploits of his career. Well done!

[Hasan Qureshi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rough and tough stories about NYPD. Great fluff read.