Man with a Gun by Robert Daley (1988, Hardcover)

Man with a Gun
by Robert Daley
Publisher:  Simon and Schuster
Copyright 1988

In Man with a Gun, Robert Daley has done in fiction what his best-selling Prince of the City achieved in nonfiction:  brought to sharp, unforgettable, gritty life the world of the police, and the moral strain under which they live -- and sometimes die.

His hero is by no means a conventional cop.  Phil Keefe is a respected journalist, a sharp, ambitious, thoughtful man -- living with an attractive, independent young woman -- and he has been hand-picked by a newly appointed Police Commissioner to be a Deputy Commissioner of the New York Police Department.

Keefe's job is that of an administrator, to help decide on policy and priorities, not to be a cop.  But he carries a gun and a badge as part of his job; and then his own ambition and the Machiavellian intrigues of the police brass plunge him into a situation where he is forced to use the gun.

Keefe's accidental and ambiguous act of heroism rocks the Department and the city, destroys careers, catapults him into the limelight, costs him almost everything he holds dear, and turns him overnight from someone who had everything going for him into a desperate, lonely man, struggling to save himself against the whole weight of the establishment he serves . . . .

Brilliantly three-dimensional, rich and complex, Man with a Gun is at once a passionate love story and a spellbinder, as authentic as today's big city headline stories, yet timeless in its portrayal of one man's struggle to seek justice in a criminal-justice system that he has once served and that now has turned against him.

Robert Daley -- himself a former Deputy Commissioner of the New York Police Department, as well as a best-selling author and respected journalist -- has gathered around the embattled Keefe a cast of stunningly believable characters:  Police Commissioner Egan, a man whose small stature belies a shrewd and Jesuitical mind; Sergeant Rainey, a cop with a dangerous secret, whose loyalty to Keefe costs them both dearly; Keefe's girlfriend, Sharon, whose own career seems to be carrying her away from him at just the moment he needs her most; and Joshua Brown, the tormented defendant.

Set in the grim, real world of the streets where crime is committed, and in Police Headquarters, where crime takes second place to politics and career-making, Man with a Gun is Robert Daley's most compelling book to date.

Condition:  Used.  Hardcover.  Dust cover.  Pages are tanned from age.  Previous owner's "Library Of" stamp is on the front endpaper.  Dust cover flaps are tanning.  Dust cover shows a bit of edge wear and tear and creasing.

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