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An incredible fourdecade account of murder power and corruption in one of the countrys largest police departments
In 1979 the gruesome slaying of a thirteenyearold boy riveted the suburbs of Suffolk County New York As the county hustled to bring the case to a dubious resolution a wayward local teenager emerged with a convenient story to tell For his cooperation Jimmy Burke was rewarded with a job as a cop
Thus began Burkes unlikely ascent to the top of one of the countrys largest law enforcement jurisdictions He and a crew of likeminded allies utilized vengeance gangster tactics and political leverage to become the most powerful and feared figures in their suburban empire
Until a pilfered bag of sex toys brought it all crashing down
Jimmy the King is the story of the rise reign and paranoiac fall of a corrupt cop and his regimea crime family with badges and guaranteed pensions Novelistic in detail and piercing in its political insight this book will leave you questioning who modern policing serves who it protects and who it preys upon and abandons
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