Though I am not in law enforcement, I am cetain that this must be a very accurate portayal of the work of a police detective (or DEA or FBI agent, etc). I found it to be fascinating and a page turner. I could see how some might find it boring through the middle half of the book because it involes many episodes of sitting and watching suspects and tailing the same suspects endlessly on foot or in cars. I think young CSI fans...
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Eighty percent of the 260 pages of this book describe the daily surveillance police made on the drug importers. It includes watching what they were doing in their business locations, the restaurants and bars they visited, etc. Tailing their cars everyday is also part of the job. The book is full of details like how the detectives felt while sitting in their cars for hours, what they talked to each other, etc. It reveals...
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Well, I read this book at the age of 15, when it was first published in 1969. I loved it. Tho frankly I'd have to read it again to do any kind of real review. So I'm going to copy an outside blurp."As a result of his second tour in Vietnam Robin Moore became concerned about the wide spread use among soldiers of narcotics, particularly opium and its derivative, heroin. He contacted friends in the New York Police Department...
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I haven't even finished half of this book and now I am ready to review it. What a fantastic detective story. I dont live in NYC and wouldn't want to either but I can almost sense what it would be like. The author gives great geographical descriptions and also intense character descriptions which is what makes this book/story to me a good read. I literally lost interest in other things and read this book cover...
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Robin Moore writes a stunning novel that illustrates the fundementals of good detective work. Egan and Grosso are two Narcotics Detectives who track a mafia drug dealer, but they don't know that the mob is also part of a bigger drug ring with french dealers, who smuggle drugs over from France under the innocant cover of a famous French T.V. star. The Final bust is brilliant. A rcommended read for anyone who likes a classic...
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