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.<br> <B>--William Bill Arbuckle</B> <I>Former California lawman and reviewer of books pertaining to crime cases.</I></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.<br> --Edward Anthony Gibbons</P>