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The Setup : A True Story of Dirty Cops, Soccer Moms, and Reality TV by Pete Crooks; Joe Kenda is a reference work available to read on EtoBox.

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The pitch went like this: Chris Butler, a retired cop, ran a private investigator firm in Concord, California. His business had a fascinating angle—his firm was staffed entirely by soccer moms. In fact, Butler employed PI Super Moms: attractive, organized, smart, and trained in investigative techniques, self-defense, and weaponry. This American Life host Ira Glass described them as “MILF: Charlie's Angels.'When this story came across Pete Crooks's desk when he was working at Diablo magazine in 2010, he was instantly hooked. He'd heard a little bit about Butler and his super moms in the news; they'd been featured in People magazine and on Dr. Phil. What Butler's publicist was offering was too tantalizing to pass up: an opportunity to ride along with Butler and a few of his sexy PIs as they prepared to start filming a reality TV show.But after the ride-along—and after he started receiving mysterious emails from one of Butler's employees—Crooks started to realize something didn't seem right. After doing a little digging, he discovered the “sting'he'd seen only had one real victim…him. The PI bust had been a setup.Crooks wasn't a hardboiled crime reporter. He did lifestyle pieces for a

Who reads The Setup : A True Story of Dirty Cops, Soccer Moms, and Reality TV?

Author

Pete Crooks; Joe Kenda

Publisher

BenBella Books, Inc. : Distributed by Perseus Distribution

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781940363554

Category

reference

Subjects

Memoir, Social Science, Biography

Rating

3.28 / 5 (112 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14