The Chinese Fire Drill
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Publisher Description
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” ― Albert Einstein
During a bungled federal arson and corruption case labeled The Chinese Fire Drill, they meet.
She is a beautiful, high strung ballet diva just returned from Paris. She is also the long alienated daughter of a scheming con artist Gypsy father and tong connected Chinese mother.
He is a witty, gritty, but jaded and low life street cop on night shift uniform nicknamed Mister Hobo. He is also a semi nutcase haunted by a persistent spook kid and dogged by rumors from out of Little China that he has been targeted to die.
She has long cherished dreams for a dancing career and finding love with an old high school crush.
He’s caught in a sleazy nightmare of murder, mayhem, pimps, drugs, and gang wars just trying to stay alive, sane, and ... single.
It’s an old story of boy vs. girl. It’s also a Chinese Fire Drill.
Customer Reviews
A very realistic look into the lives and daily grind of the men and women in blue
A.J. Hoover writes with a very even-paced flow and a great mix of action and dialogue. This first book in the series gives an intimate feel of being behind the scenes of a police precinct. The politics, the attitudes, the hierarchy and the hijinks. It also highlights the realistic very thin and sometimes blurred line between being a cop and being on the other side. These are people who are stressed and traumatized and have to learn their own ways of dealing with the job.
I love the start of the book introducing Hobo, starting as an innocent rookie in a flashback as a powerful and intriguing contrast to where he ends up in the present day. But as the book progresses some of that idealistic young rookie shows through as a refusal to give up on anyone he can see the goodness in.
This series is great for anyone who ever wanted to be a cop, giving them a realistic view of the inner workings and problems faced by the men and women in blue.