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Rookie Cop
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the age of thirty-nine on April 4, 1968 at 6:01 p.m.
Rookie Cop Marvin Levey had his whole life-changing experience with only one day on the job as a New York City police officer. When crowds of over one hundred thousand rioters overwhelmed the police force. New York City had no choice; they needed every able body police officer to maintain law and order. They needed much more law enforcement. That meant that the April 3, 1968 police academy class was ordered out on the means streets of New York City to quell riots, make arrests, and literally fight for their lives without any police training.
Rookie Cop Marvin Levey had his whole life-changing experience with only one day on the job as a New York City police officer. When crowds of over one hundred thousand rioters overwhelmed the police force. New York City had no choice; they needed every able body police officer to maintain law and order. They needed much more law enforcement. That meant that the April 3, 1968 police academy class was ordered out on the means streets of New York City to quell riots, make arrests, and literally fight for their lives without any police training.
204 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 18, 2018
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July 8, 2018
So one of the aspects about this book that needs to be mentioned upfront is this book is more about police corruption. I found it hard to engage with the story as it read more like a nonfiction book than a fictional piece. The beginning of the book was very telling and lacked emotional depth to help the reader connect to the main character, Marvin. The main character is dark and the overall tone of this book is pretty dark. Marvin is a member of the NYPD who has multiple affairs, takes advantages of perks the community offers cops, lies about his accomplishments, allows his men to kill a prisoner, and steals money. There is nothing redeeming about him or reasons behind his flaws to make the reader cheer for him.The book could have also done with more editing as there are numerous grammatical and sentence structure edits. Another issue I found with the book is that the author should've had a sensitivity reader. While I understand the main character is Jewish, some of the ways aspects of this and the way his sexuality is questioned should've been approached in a different way as it does come across as a bit offensive.
July 2, 2018
I still haven't figured out if this is fiction with some roots in fact, or just straight up fiction. Either way, it's one of the best reads I've enjoyed in ages and I couldn't put the book down. It's almost a Cinderella story...ooops...a "cinderfella" story and what happens to "Super Jew" as the protagonist ends up being nicknamed stretches the limits of probabilities...at least for me. Or perhaps it's more a case of I don't want to believe that there is this degree of brotherhood protection and corruption in the police force. The protagonist's thrilling entry to, and short ride in the police force is crazy, chaotic and so much fun, that if there's even a chance that Rookie Cop is based on real events, well, there'd never be a shortage of cops wanting to get on board! Read it and see what I mean. Great read and highly recommended.
©Viga Boland
The Ladies of Loretto
©Viga Boland
The Ladies of Loretto
July 19, 2018
This was so bad and I kept reading thinking it would get better but it didn't
June 30, 2018
Rookie Cop is about a young man named Marvin who joins the New York police force prior to the assassination of Martin Luther King and the riots that followed that event. However, Martin seems to spend far more time indulging in work-related perks (free meals and drinks) and morally dubious pastimes (having multiple affairs in a short period of time and employing company resources for personal gain) than he does on the job.
His activities when he’s at work are pretty questionable as well (lying about his accomplishments, allowing his underlings to beat a prisoner to death, stealing large sums of untraceable money, and participating in a gambling ring.) Nor are readers given any real reason to root for the main character or any of his associates. There doesn’t seem to be one upright character among them.
Although readers can tell that the author did his research, the first portion of the story reads more like a textbook than a novel. There are some other sections where this issue pops up, but those aren’t as lengthy. There were also quite a few typos scattered throughout the book. There’s additionally a big deal made out of the fact that Marvin is Jewish and later that he’s assumed to be gay, which might offend people simply because of how he is portrayed.
Readers should be warned that, despite the blurb on Amazon, this isn’t a historical fiction novel focusing on the New York riots in the 60s. At its heart, this is a story about a bad cop from an earlier decade who ultimately profits from his actions. It's rating probably falls somewhere between two and three stars, depending greatly on the reader's tolerance for Marvin's antics.
His activities when he’s at work are pretty questionable as well (lying about his accomplishments, allowing his underlings to beat a prisoner to death, stealing large sums of untraceable money, and participating in a gambling ring.) Nor are readers given any real reason to root for the main character or any of his associates. There doesn’t seem to be one upright character among them.
Although readers can tell that the author did his research, the first portion of the story reads more like a textbook than a novel. There are some other sections where this issue pops up, but those aren’t as lengthy. There were also quite a few typos scattered throughout the book. There’s additionally a big deal made out of the fact that Marvin is Jewish and later that he’s assumed to be gay, which might offend people simply because of how he is portrayed.
Readers should be warned that, despite the blurb on Amazon, this isn’t a historical fiction novel focusing on the New York riots in the 60s. At its heart, this is a story about a bad cop from an earlier decade who ultimately profits from his actions. It's rating probably falls somewhere between two and three stars, depending greatly on the reader's tolerance for Marvin's antics.
April 9, 2019
The most ridiculous story of police corruption ever.
I went into this book thinking it had to do with MLK’s assassination and the events afterwards. Nope. Just a totally unbelievable story of a young kid that manages to amass tons of money, sex and freebies all based on lies.
Lowest of low moral ground.
I went into this book thinking it had to do with MLK’s assassination and the events afterwards. Nope. Just a totally unbelievable story of a young kid that manages to amass tons of money, sex and freebies all based on lies.
Lowest of low moral ground.
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