Burgess, Matt
Summary: "A New York City cop who can last eighteen months in Narcotics without getting killed or demoted first will automatically get promoted to detective. Undercover narc Janice Itwaru is at month seventeen. Ambitious, desperate for that promotion, she hits the sidewalks of Queens in her secondhand hoochie clothes, hoping to convince potential criminals--drug dealers, addicts, dummies, whomever--to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2014
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Burgess 2014Burgess, Matt
Summary: On any given day, Janice Itwaru might be found trolling the streets of Queens for drugs. Janice is an 'uncle'-an undercover narcotic officer-trying to meet the impossibly high quota of drug busts needed to make detective, or be sent back down to uniformed patrol. An uproariously funny portrait of how undercover cops really talk and act, and a compelling story of their crazy, dangerous and often...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Audio 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BURBurgess, Matt
Summary: Dreading the prison release of his violent older brother, who blames him for his imprisonment and for stealing his pregnant girlfriend, young drug dealer Alfredo struggles with cultural clashes in Queens while planning to steal a pit bull for a homecoming dogfight.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2010