Cop without a Badge: The Extraordinary Undercover Life of Kevin Maher by Charles Kipps
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- Pub. Date: August 2009
- 336pp
- Sales Rank: 2,294
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: August 2009
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
- Format: Paperback, 336pp
- Sales Rank: 2,294
- ISBN-13: 9781439177112
- ISBN: 1439177112
Synopsis
What's the difference between a cop and Kevin Maher? Kevin doesn't have a badge. And he doesn't play by the rules.
Cop Without A Badge tracks confidential informant Kevin Maher as he helps the NYPD, the FBI, and many other law enforcement agencies solve cases that range from robbery to extortion to homicide. In the process, Kevin becomes the highest paid CI the DEA ever had.
But Kevin's motives are more complicated than simply money. Having been arrested for Grand Theft Auto at the age of sixteen, his felony conviction prevents him from being what he always wanted to be: a police officer. So now he's out to prove to himself he truly is what he could've been. A cop. Even without a badge.
Kevin Maher was 39 years old and living in New Jersey in 1996 when Cop Without A Badge was first published. Maher now works as a private investigator in the state of California.
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Kevin Maher, working in conjunction with the FBI, the NYPD and the Secret Service, has helped solve more than a dozen homicides, put a regiment of Mafia soldiers behind bars, and plugged a high volume Columbia-Miami-New York cocaine pipeline. After a cop helped Maher avoid a second jail term in 1974, Maher began a dangerous undercover career that spanned two decades.
Publishers Weekly
Kipps (Out of Focus) deftly labels Maher an ``excitement junkie,'' and the aptness of that term is clear from the first paragraph of this high-speed bio. From a broken home, Maher early became addicted to fast cars, and at 17, driving a stolen car, he led police on a wild chase from the Bronx in New York City to the Catskills. For this he got a prison sentence of up to four years. After escape and re-incarceration, he had the good fortune to encounter detective Jim Doherty, who became a second father to him. He then built a career as a confidential informant for various police departments, the FBI and the DEA. His fascination with fast cars continuing, he met at a drag-racing strip the scion of one of Colombia's drug families and for several years was a serious cocaine addict whose habit wrecked his first two marriages and derailed his career as an informant. Eventually he conquered his addiction and now works for a security firm in New Jersey. From all the derring-do here emerges the portrait of a man who never grew up. First serial to Penthouse. (Feb.)
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September 10, 2009: I found the book interesting, probably only because the locale. I was raised in North Jersey and recognized some of the locations.
I think the content was good, but the writing could have been better. It's a good conversation piece due to the tie in with "Desperate Housewives of New Jersey".Cop Without a Badgeby JackBel
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August 23, 2009: It wasn't one of my more interesting reads, however I watched the Housewives of New Jersey and was curious about Danielle. She certainly seems to have a colorful life and I wonder how much of her life she has shared or will share with her daughtes. With her being in the public eye, things are going to come up, she might reconsider what she will do when she grows up.
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