Legends of Winter Hill: Cops, Con Men, And Joe McCain, The Last Real Detective
- ISBN-10
- 1400050766
- ISBN-13
- 9781400050765
- Category
- True Crime
- Pages
- 363
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-03
- Publisher
- Broadway Books
- Author
- Jay Atkinson
Description
The author describes a year in the life of a rookie private detective for McCain Investigations, a firm founded by the most decorated police officer in Boston history, detailing the cases on which he worked and his relationship with the founder's son, himself a police detective, whose encounters with his father's old enemies reveal the dark and dangerous side of law enforcement. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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