Crime, Passion & Conscience

<i>This writing is a wonderful effort to produce a book that:</i><br><br> Reeks with authenticity<br> Challenges the reader to predict outcomes. Both immediate and eventual.<br> Intertwines a moral thread throughout with the final climax.<br> Educates historically to the current reality.<br> Brings to the reader a colorful caste of characters.<br> Calls attention to the bias in the hierarchy of law enforcement agencies.<br> Points to the ethnic predominance of cops and crooks.<br> Infuses the reader with the impression that male chauvinism predominates law enforcement.<br> Portrays "cops" motivation being emotional as well as moral.<br> Asks the question, "does might make right?"</p> <p>"Boston Police Detective Sergeant Stuart Parnell McKeady was not fully aware of the moral debt he was incurring as he slipped progressively deeper into graft and corruption - but that debt would quickly come due." <ul><b>-William "Bill" Arbuckle</b> <i>Former California lawman and reviewer of books pertaining to crime cases.</i></ul></p> <p>"The book <i>The Great Brink's Holdup</i> I co-authored with Sid Feder (Murder, Inc.) was factual. <i>Crime, Passion & Conscience</i> is factualized fiction. In my ten years on the force, I witnessed inefficiency and outright dishonesty from the top down. This fictional account shows how temptations can overwhelm conscience in a very difficult job. I am proud of the honest majority of police and of the Boston Police Medal of Honor bestowed on me."<ul> -Edward Anthony Gibbons</ul></p>