Review: Superbia... is superb writing, gut-wrenching expose...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 21, 2012
Witty, gritty, and appallingly accurate.This book is not for the faint of heart. If you are looking for romance don't buy this book. If you are looking for a strong dose of reality expressed as fiction and you like intense police drama... this book is for you.Life for a real policeman as I've never read it before. The author is a real police officer and has been for long enough to share his lifestyle in this piece of fiction. I do not know how much of this is factual in his life, but I do feel it is factual in some unfortunate's life.I stayed up until almost 4am this morning to finish reading this book.  After having read through the first two chapters the chill I felt was greater than the blowing snow outside. I have known different law enforcement personnel... nuts. That sounds so sterile, obtuse, and distant. These are real people. Our families, friends, and neighbors who have answered to a higher calling; that of serving and protecting the rest of us from the rest of us as needed. And, they risk their lives, physically, mentally, emotionally... for what? To keep our society from coming completely unglued.Sorry... did not mean to get on the soapbox but I have the highest regard for the police and all who put themselves on the line for another... even if I don't particularly like some I've met, I will not disrespect them.This story, this book, elicits such a deep gutteral response within me. If you want to crawl into the skin of a real cop, a real hero... with all of the bruises, faults, and secret sins of any and every human being, then get this book and read it.I give it and its author, my highest recommendation.This is not a paid review. Although I am familiar with the author... I have most of his books, I swear to you I am being heartfully honest. I love reading thrillers, horror, fantasy... and biographies. This reads like I was sitting down with these cops like I used to do. Fiction or not, it reads like a biography. It should be made into an R-Rated movie.Thanks Bernie for creeping me out for real. Keep up the superb work.