There’s a paragraph in my new novel, Fool Her Once where the protagonist’s husband, Zack, has this to say about one of the fictional cops in the story: “There was something smarmy about Brad… a psychopathic vibe he gave off … Zack wasn’t surprised. It was common knowledge that there were certain professions that attracted psychos, just as it was well known that the police force had its fair share.”
I didn’t conjure up the last sentence out of thin air.
As a long-time resident of the East End of Long Island, where FHO is set, I was aware, at the time of writing, that there were plenty of Suffolk County cops who, if not always psychopaths, were liars, thugs, bullies, and lawbreakers. Continue reading “Jimmy The King: A True Crime Classic About The Dirtiest Cops on Long Island”