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Real Cops
1932. The Depression. America stops eating. Teachers drop in classrooms from hunger. Lee Childress, a 23-year-old farm boy turned lawyer cannot find work. Nobody is hiring. The military refuses recruits. Lee discovers the small and little-known FBI. It is a mess. 266 virginal young lawyers and accountants, without guns or arrest powers, join cynical older agents. Thrown together, they hunt Tommy gun killers. Honest folks and crooks together laugh at this baby FBI. Lee joins because he needs a job. Bank robbers rip open the Midwest. Kidnappings for ransom happen twice a day. Corrupt politicians control entire cities and protect gangsters hiding out. Local police receive low pay and less support. They buy their own guns and use the family car for patrol. Their authority stops at the town line. The gangsters enjoy bulletproof cars, automatic weapons and networks of crooked lawyers and doctors to protect them. The bank robber, Pretty Boy Floyd, kills cops in the Kansas City Massacre. Two veteran agents and Lee hunt Pretty Boy Floyd through the dark and isolated Ozark Mountains. They move undercover through villages that support Floyd as a Robin Hood. The chase strains Lee's nerves. The agents hide, eat and sleep in secret. A mountain gunfight breaks out. The agents barely escape. The FBI boss, J. Edgar Hoover, vows to erase the killers like Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson. These killers write their names in blood on the streets. Lee descends into a nervous breakdown, wild sex and alcoholism, steeling himself for the final showdown.
210 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 31, 2020
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About the author
Frank Hickey
19 books8 followers Frank has recently returned from three years overseas, working with refugees from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Being not Ukranian, 68 years old, with a heart condition and bad knees, knowing nobody in Ukraine, he decided to go there just the same.
His book 'Ukraine, Whaddya Gonna Do? or Sunshine, SALO and Sirens' tells the true story of those years. Written during rocket attacks and blackouts, he writes true vignettes of laughter, suffering and love throughout this genocidal war.
Throughout his early years, Frank Hickey worked the Harlem streets as a private eye. He lived for months undercover in the Cajun bayous of Louisiana, hunting a killer. His adventures have taken him around the world. Living outdoors or in crude huts, he learned local languages and culture.
Carrying the gold shield of a Detective-Investigator/Police Officer, he served in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office on an international serial killer case. Using the Sicilian language, he also went undercover against the New York Mafia.
As a corporal in the Savannah, Georgia Police Department, he learned about
the South. Later, as an LAPD officer, he initiated one-person foot patrols in high-crime areas amid gang wars and drive-by shootings.
37 years of crime adventures from the jungles of Thailand to southern swamps to the streets of New York form his life.
Besides his Max Royster series, Frank also co-wrote Spy, the Movie starring Vincent Pastore [The Sopranos].
His book 'Ukraine, Whaddya Gonna Do? or Sunshine, SALO and Sirens' tells the true story of those years. Written during rocket attacks and blackouts, he writes true vignettes of laughter, suffering and love throughout this genocidal war.
Throughout his early years, Frank Hickey worked the Harlem streets as a private eye. He lived for months undercover in the Cajun bayous of Louisiana, hunting a killer. His adventures have taken him around the world. Living outdoors or in crude huts, he learned local languages and culture.
Carrying the gold shield of a Detective-Investigator/Police Officer, he served in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office on an international serial killer case. Using the Sicilian language, he also went undercover against the New York Mafia.
As a corporal in the Savannah, Georgia Police Department, he learned about
the South. Later, as an LAPD officer, he initiated one-person foot patrols in high-crime areas amid gang wars and drive-by shootings.
37 years of crime adventures from the jungles of Thailand to southern swamps to the streets of New York form his life.
Besides his Max Royster series, Frank also co-wrote Spy, the Movie starring Vincent Pastore [The Sopranos].
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