Once Were Cops: A Novel

Michael OShea is a member of Irelands police force known as The Guards. Hes also a sociopath who walks a knife edge between sanity and all-out mayhem. When an exchange program is initiated and twenty Guards come to America and twenty cops from the States go to Ireland Shay as hes known has his lifelong dream come true--he becomes a member of the NYPD. But Shays dream is about to become New Yorks nightmare.. Paired with an unstable cop nicknamed Kebar for his liberal use of a short lethal metal stick called a K-bar the two unlikely partners become a devastatingly effective force in the war against crime.. But Kebar harbors a dangerous secret: hes sold out to the mob to help his sister. Her rape and beating leaves her in a coma and pushes an already unstable Kebar over the edge just as Sheas dark secrets threaten boil over and into the streets of New York.. Once Were Cops melds the street poetry of Brooklyn and Dublin into a fast-paced incomparable hard-boiled novel. This is Ken Bruen at his best.