According to the book description of
Real Cops, "The
Depression. America stops eating. Teachers drop in classrooms from hunger.Lee
Childress, a 23-year-old farm boy turned lawyer cannot find work.
Nobody is hiring. The military refuses
recruits. Lee discovers the small and little-known FBI. It is a mess. 266
virginal young lawyers and accountants, without guns or arrest powers, join
cynical older agents. Thrown together, they hunt Tommy gun killers.
Honest folks and crooks together laugh at
this baby FBI.Lee joins because he needs a job.Bank robbers rip open the
Midwest. Kidnappings for ransom happen twice a day. Corrupt politicians control
entire cities and protect gangsters hiding out.
Local police receive low pay and less
support. They buy their own guns and use the family car for patrol. Their
authority stops at the town line. The gangsters enjoy bulletproof cars,
automatic weapons and networks of crooked lawyers and doctors to protect them.
The bank robber, Pretty Boy Floyd, kills cops
in the Kansas City Massacre. Two veteran agents and Lee hunt Pretty Boy Floyd
through the dark and isolated Ozark Mountains. They move undercover through
villages that support Floyd as a Robin Hood.
The chase strains Lee's nerves. The agents
hide, eat and sleep in secret. A mountain gunfight breaks out. The agents barely
escape. The FBI boss, J. Edgar Hoover, vows to erase the killers like Dillinger
and Baby Face Nelson. These killers write their names in blood on the streets.
Lee descends into a nervous breakdown, wild sex and alcoholism, steeling himself
for the final showdown."
According to the book description of Dancing Max Hits Guadalcanal or When
in Doubt, Rhumba ,
"I, Max Royster, am teaching the crew of the
good ship Laura Nyro how to rhumba when terrorist from the South Pacific island
of Guadalcanal take my daughter hostage. Suddenly,I am her only hope of rescue."
According to the book description of
Love Finds Max Royster at Christmas or Kissing in the Slush After Sixty
"Cold grips Manhattan.
The city throws a Unity Holiday Party, a
dancing street fair to bring all together. I, Max, 62, meet and flirt with a
dark blonde beauty named Peg, a barmaid with no illusions left. Her looks and
slangy streetwise talk hold me. At my age, she makes me smolder and feel 24
again.
No matter what it takes, I want her for mine.
But the plan smashes when a drunken Black man
fights with a White rookie cop. The Black man dies and everyone hollers their
own ideas about what really happened. Seeing a chance to hit big on a
settlement, I summon Nancy, a hooligan street-fighter with a lawyer's ticket.
This kind of death means cash.
Peg is the only witness to the struggle
between the drunken man and the cop. If I can run this, I can stop hustling
forever. Skip, another lawyer, Black, my nemesis-father figure, always scheming,
hijacks Peg for his reward. His bodyguard, Joey, beats me in a fight.
The FBI and the radical group SAP -Stop
Police Action- jump into this case. Trying to out-dance them, I go undercover in
SAP and live like a radical. Through freezing stakeout nights and bitter dawns,
I must find Peg and love at Christmas."
According to the book description of
Max Wisecracks Hollywood or Foxtrotting for Justice, "I, Max Royster,
cannot run fifty yards or see my own feet under a beer belly. Pushing 64-years
old, I struggle to rebuild, after the New York cops fired me for depression and
hijacked my pension. Like everything else sliding around loose, I wind up in
Hollywood, California.
By chance, I see a female Black LAPD cop
grapple with a homeless woman, an ex-Blaxploitation film actress who 40-years
ago turned Civil Rights radical.
The homeless woman dies. Sidewalk Angelenos
heave rocks and bottles in protest.
Los Angeles screams. Cops retreat and haul me
to the station. An ambitious Deputy District Attorney and the hard-charging FBI
play tug-of-war-witness over my fast-aging body. Everyone wants to jail me as a
material witness for trial. To stay clear, I go underground with a cryptic
Hollywood beauty and learn much on the floor of her apartment. The media turns
up the heat. The G-men freeze my cash.
All that I have left are my wits and the cash
in my bluejeans.
According to the book description of When
the Whistle Blows, Everyone Goes, "Federal agents jail me for murder.
That's me, Max Royster. Aging. Fat. Broke. And innocent. How do I clear myself
from inside my cell? Nobody believes me. A hate group tries to rape and kill me.
But Mother Royster always said to keep smiling no matter what. So to chase away
the jailhouse blues, I organize a hipster group and swing dances among the
inmates."
According to the book description of
Softening Flatbush, "I, Max Royster, fat, broke, divorced, thrown off
the NYPD for mental illness. Now in Flatbush, Brooklyn, I find new love, new
murder and new career. Can I keep my love? Crack the case? Can I inspire and
change private security? And maybe regain my NYPD shield?
Flatbush, Brooklyn, a neighborhood that used
to be the boroughs jewel.
Sixty years later, street crime plagues the
area.
My love, Cooper, and her friends want to
clean up the neighborhood and improve Flatbushs image. That way, they can
flip their homes and triple their profits. I join a security agency, thinking
I can transform the guards from unhappy minimum wage-earners to passionate,
hardworking crime fighters.
If I succeed and make Flatbush safe for
Cooper and her friends, we will buy a home there and enjoy a happy marriage. My
new employees and I fight to take back the Flatbush streets. I give them better
training, uniforms and weapons. The guards buff their new badges with pride.
My boyhood friends, out-of-work actresses,
barflies and story-tellers, join us in our quest. But some guards refuse to let
go of old vices. Others turn vigilante and bully innocents. Curbing their zeal,
I try to teach them to uphold civil rights as I hunt the suspect in the
comedians murder. Then, under cover of night, good and evil clash at the
Lefferts Historic House.
Facing disgrace and prison, I must decide
what matters most in life to me. Come walk with me on that razor edge between
brutality and staying alive as Cooper and I, my Flippers and my guards give
everything to try Softening Flatbush."
According to the book
description of Brownstone Kidnap Crackup, "When Max witnesses a
debutantes kidnapping, he be-comes the FBIs prime suspect. Or is he actually
their salvation?
Its Christmas in Manhattan. A blizzard whips
the city. The Beautiful People, in the elite Upper East Side, celebrate in their
brownstones. Until a kidnapper seizes a beautiful young debutante.
Max Royster, fired from the NYPD for mental
illness, fights the kidnapper but loses. The kidnapper flees. Stripped of gun,
shield and power, Max has only his wits to save the victim. The FBI treats Max
like a suspect and tramples rough-shod on his rights. During this long sleepless
night, an unknown FBI agent cracks up. Over the radio, he quotes J. Edgar Hoover
and plants false clues.
To solve the case, Max must smash through the
facade and mysteries of millionaires in their snug brownstones. Exotic women
tempt him to give up. The blizzard worsens. As the winds howl and snowdrifts
deepen, Max risks his life and his freedom in a desperate bid to save the
victim.
Once again, Max Royster is back on the street
in Brown-stone Kidnap Crackup."
According to the book description of The Gypsy Twist, "Max looked
carefully at the dead boy, reminding himself that most murder victims looked
very young and surprised when their bodies were found, as if life had suddenly
rushed up and taken them unawares." - Shattered after a gang attack in Central
Park, misfit NYPD Officer Max Royster accepts a free-lance assignment to track
down a serial killer preying upon wealthy private school students. In the course
of his cross-country investigation, Max discovers that not all predators are
born alike."
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