Best of
Police

1997

Night Passage


Robert B. Parker - 1997
    He's left the LAPD in disgrace but lands on his feet as the new chief of police in Paradise, Massachusetts -- a town not far from Boston that's a lot less idyllic than it sounds.On arrival, the new chief finds himself in between corrupt town leaders, a local militia group, and a murderer on the loose.This exciting departure for the creator of Spenser, Robert B. Parker, "the reigning champion of the American tough-guy detective novel" (Entertainment Weekly), has landed Parker on the New York Times bestseller list once again but this time with Jesse Stone. Both readers and critics are thrilled.

Deadly Force Encounters: Cops and Citizens Defending Themselves and Others


Alexis Artwohl - 1997
    This unique life- and career-saving manual contains every shred of critical information the police officer needs to survive the media, investigations and more.

Innocents: How Justice Failed Stefan Kiszko and Lesley Molseed


Jonathan Rose - 1997
    For sixteen years Stefan Kiszko served a prison sentence having been wrongly convicted of her murder by police anxious to find a culprit.English justice catastrophically failed little Lesley Molseed and her family even though, at the trial of the man wrongly suspected of killing her, the finest barristers of the day were in court. One would go on to become Home Secretary, the other Lord Chief Justice at a time when Stefan Kiszko was serving a sixteen-year sentence and suffering unimaginable torment in prison as his mother and aunt and a small team of loyal supporters sought to overturn the miscarriage of justice. Their eventual success was followed by tragedy as first Stefan, then his mother died premature deaths, exhausted by their fight to have him proclaimed innocent. Further tragedy affected the families of other children, criminally abused by Lesley’s unpunished killer. Justice repeatedly failed the Innocents – and this is the story of that failure.

The Good Guys Wear Black


Steve Collins - 1997
    Here Sergeant Steve Collins, who led Black Team, the hardest and most renowned team within the unit, tells their story.Yardies, international drug barons, IRA enforcers, celebrity South London gangsters and hitmen have all been taken off the streets by the true life heroes of SO19 either in handcuffs or in bodybags.The tensions and camaraderie of a team who daily risk death has never been captured so vividly on the page.