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Violence
Some
Moderate; street crime and police investigation in Brooklyn
Language
Some
Some strong language; the NYPD world
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
Moderate; the working cop culture involves drinking
Emotional Intensity
Some
Moderate; the moral complexity of a good cop working within a system that isn't always good
What this book is about
Lou Manfredo's debut novel introduces Sergeant Joe Rizzo, a veteran NYPD detective who knows every corner of Brooklyn's moral landscape and navigates it with a hard-won pragmatism that makes him both effective and occasionally complicated. Manfredo's police procedural draws on his twenty years as an NYPD detective himself, giving the novel an authority and specificity that distinguishes it from more sanitized crime fiction.
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Police procedural violence
Strong language
Moral ambiguity of law enforcement
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