{"product_id":"real-cops-9781733175029","title":"Real Cops","description":"\u003cp\u003e 1932. The Depression.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e America stops eating. Teachers drop in classrooms from hunger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Lee Childress, a 23-year-old farm boy turned lawyer cannot find work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Nobody is hiring. The military refuses recruits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Lee discovers the small and little-known FBI. It is a mess. 266 virginal young lawyers and accountants, without guns or arrest powers, join cynical older agents. Thrown together, they hunt Tommy gun killers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Honest folks and crooks together laugh at this baby FBI.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Lee joins because he needs a job.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Bank robbers rip open the Midwest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Kidnappings for ransom happen twice a day. Corrupt politicians control entire cities and protect gangsters hiding out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Local police receive low pay and less support. They buy their own guns and use the family car for patrol. Their authority stops at the town line. The gangsters enjoy bulletproof cars, automatic weapons and networks of crooked lawyers and doctors to protect them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The bank robber, Pretty Boy Floyd, kills cops in the Kansas City Massacre.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Two veteran agents and Lee hunt Pretty Boy Floyd through the dark and isolated Ozark Mountains. They move undercover through villages that support Floyd as a Robin Hood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The chase strains Lee's nerves. The agents hide, eat and sleep in secret. A mountain gunfight breaks out. The agents barely escape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The FBI boss, J. Edgar Hoover, vows to erase the killers like Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e These killers write their names in blood on the streets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Lee descends into a nervous breakdown, wild sex and alcoholism, steeling himself for the final showdown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pigtown Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781733175029\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.44d","brand":"Frank Hickey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38026349772981,"sku":"9781733175029","price":8.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_a6e241bb-ddd6-494e-8658-1f84d9c9d335.jpg?v=1609190198","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/real-cops-9781733175029","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}