Vice Cop: My Twenty-Year Battle with New York's Dark Side

by William McCarthy

Book Overview

The most explosive expose of life on the police force since Serpico, this authentic, intensely personal story of one man's war against crime--amidst the grittiness and glamour, against the corruption... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688084516
• ISBN13: 9780688084516
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

4 Star Fiction.

Well written, interesting subject, great cops & robbers yarn. It was fun to read but I dont believe a word of it. I dont know cops like McCarthy. The cops I know try to bust tourists taking photos of the cruise boats at the docks, or slam old ladies against walls at the airport, or drive around in squad cars marked SEAT BELT ENFORCEMENT UNIT. I know, I work with cops every day. Cops naturally seek out and exploit 'easy money' rather than adventures like McCarthy's.

vice cop

vice cop which is based on a true story,tells the life of bill mcarthy,a tough irish-american cop who wont give in to corruption.the book takes place in the 70's in a pimp infested new york city.the author mike mallowe takes us from bill mcarthy's first experience as a cop in public morals division,to the climax where an event changes the way the nypd operates now.an inside look into the life of corrupt cops and the cops that try to bring them down,filled with pimps,gambling,murders and the mafia.a good read.

This was an interesting book about a hard working detective.

I'm a ninth grader at West Orange- Stark High School. My english teacher assigned my class a research project over anyone who we were interested in. After taking many people into consideration, I chose this one because it is what I am most interested in. I found it to be interesting. From what I have read about Bill McCarthy, he seems to me to be a very heroic person who delt with some of the worst situations a policeman would go through. I could sometimes just picture myself there as he used great imagry to take the reader through good and bad situations. Before reading this book I personaly didn't know much about a cops life. I thought a cop was just someone with a special suit who pulled people over for speeding and shot at the "bad guys". Now I understand more of what a cop has to go through everyday. I highly recomend this book to anyone who is interested.

A must read for any law enforcement officer

As a former student of Professor McCarthy's I found this book to be everything he had ever said and taught me in class. The book details the struggles and problems with dealing with the criminal element and a corrupt hierarchy of beuracracy. Very well done.

Excellent tale of an excellent Vice Cop

I had Bill McCarthy as a professor in college. He was a great teacher, but very modest about his accomplishments.This story paints a picture of one cop against the mob and crooked cops. This story paralells Serpico's in many ways. If Bill got more publicity, he could be the next Serpico.