According to the book description of False Negatives, "The year
is 1972. America is awash in violence, and Los Angeles is drowning in it. The
gruesome Tate-LaBianca slayings by the Manson Family attempting to ignite a
Helter Skelter race war remain front page news as the bizarre trial unfolds.
With the hot embers of racial hatred that ignited the Watts Riots still
smoldering just below the surface, the tension makes LAs smoggy air even harder
to breathe. Most folks go about their daily routines and simply hope for the
best.
Max Stoller isnt like most people. Confident he can make a difference, and
anxious to test his mettle, the naive idealist joins the Los Angeles Police
Department. The job will challenge more than his courage and integrity. It will
drive him to question who he is as he struggles to tell the good guys from the
bad.
In the words of Max Stollers training officer. "Experience is a hell of a
teacher." It is time to go to school."
According to
the book description of Black
and White, "doesn't fit
neatly into a genre. Calling it a
police procedural, mystery,
political thriller, or historical
fiction would all be appropriate.
If you like the early works of
Joseph Wambaugh, the HBO series The
Wire, or the Bosch saga; you'll
love Black and White.
Although Black
and White is a sequel to False
Negatives, both novels stand alone.
Black and White continues following a
naive, conflicted college educated
white officer who teams up with his
academy classmate, an older,
under-educated African-American.
Largely written
in the first person present tense, the
author doesn’t tell the story. The
prose immerses the reader in the
action, whether fighting prisoners in
the jail, or getting shot at while
patrolling the mean streets of Shootin’
Newton Division.
But the drama
doesn’t stop with the cops on the
beat. Again from the first person
perspective, the reader experiences
the political intrigue and chicanery,
not only at the police station, but at
city hall. While this story is
fiction, the historical references are
all true, making this novel as
relevant today as it was fifty years
ago."
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