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The Job : True Tales From the Life of a New York City Cop by Steve Osborne is a humor available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Job : True Tales From the Life of a New York City Cop about?
**"How ya doin?" With these four syllables, delivered in an unmistakably authentic New York accent, Steve Osborne has riveted thousands of people through the legendary storytelling outfit The Moth (and over a million times on their website) with his hilarious, profane, and touching tales from his twenty years served as an NYPD street cop. Steve Osborne is the real deal, people, the tough streetwise New York cop of your dreams, one with a big big heart. __Kojak?__ __NYPD Blue?__ __Law & Order?__ Fuggedaboutem! __The Job__ blows them out of the water with this unputdownable book.** Steve Osborne has seen a thing or two in his twenty years in the NYPD—some harmless things, some definitely not. In "Stakeout," Steve and his partner mistake a Manhattan dentist for an armed robbery suspect and reduce the man down to a puddle of snot and tears when questioning him. In "Mug Shot," the mother of a suspected criminal makes a strange request and provides a sobering reminder of the humanity at stake in his profession. And in "Home," the image of his family provides the adrenaline he needs to fight for his life when assaulted by two armed and violent crackheads. From his days as a rookie cop to
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Steve Osborne
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780385539630
- Category
- humor
- Subjects
- Memoir, Fiction, Social Science
- Rating
- 3.71 / 5 (1,265 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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