Man With A Gun

by Robert Daley

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.

Genres: Procedural, Thriller

430 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

Robert Daley is the author of seventeen novels and eleven non-fiction books. Born and brought up in New York, he graduated from Fordham University, did his military service in the Air Force and began writing stories, articles and books immediately afterward. He was a New York Times foreign correspondents for six years based in France but covering stories from Russia to Ireland to Tunisia, fifteen or more countries in all. Much later he served as an NYPD deputy commissioner, which explains why many of his books have played out against a police background. His work has been translated into fourteen languages, and six of his books have been filmed. He is married with three daughters. He and his French born wife divide their time between a house in Connecticut and an apartment in Nice. France.

Reviews

[Checkman · Rating 2 out of 5]

A rather mediocre and blah novel of life at the top of the N.Y.P.D. Robert Daley was an N.Y.P.D. Deputy Police Commissioner in the early seventies. Already an experienced writer and reporter at the time he accepted the appointment which had led some to state that he took the job simply for the research opportunity it presented. that's a very possible scenario when I look over his body of work since he served in that position. Daley has written several law enforcement novels (all set in the (N.Y.P.D.) over the past few decades and made a very decent living as well. So if it was about research then his sacrifice of a couple years of public service paid off in spades.

Whatever the case might be Man With A Gun is not that memorable or engrossing. The main character is rather annoying and the melodrama is trite. What was a promising premise ends up in a slow and uninvolving novel that I had to force myself to finish. As soon as I closed the cover it went into my donation box and a few days later it took a trip to my local library.

Wish I could be more helpful, but in the end all I can say isn't worth your time or effort.

[May Ling]

This is decent subway reading. The book has that good cop, bad cop politics of the workplace storyline that keeps the reader engaged. It feels a lot like every work place, where you get set up to fail; except that in the workplace of the police and commissioner you might take the fall for something far more serious than a deal gone bad.



While the characters aren't love-able, they are believable and you don't doubt the realism while you're reading. Definite use of stereotypical cop types that use their might to push each other around However, that is most likely a bit of how it actually is.



A good story all around for what it is.

[Jim Moffett · Rating 4 out of 5]

03-99

[Helen Geng]

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