By Barbara Gelb. "For the first time, a writer was granted intimate knowledge of Detective Bureau techniques": Gelb was embedded for two years with the Manhattan Homicide Task Force. That "commando squad" seems to be a plus is...a relic of '70s tri-state thinking about policing?
The book is not in great shape -- as you'll see in the photos, someone used the back cover as a coaster at some point -- but despite a lightly cracked spine and some predictable shelfwear/page toning, this seldom-found day-in-the-cop-life paperback is perfectly readable.