Life on and off the Beat

Fiction & Literature, Action Suspense, Historical
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Author: Barry E. Roth ISBN: 9781475967173
Publisher: iUniverse Publication: April 10, 2013
Imprint: iUniverse Language: English
Author: Barry E. Roth
ISBN: 9781475967173
Publisher: iUniverse
Publication: April 10, 2013
Imprint: iUniverse
Language: English

It is the mid 1960s thru the mid 1970s. The place is NYC. The atmosphere is thick with overhanging clouds of cultural upheaval and racial confrontation.

Into this world are dragged brother and sister Julio and Rosa Marino, pawns in a child-welfare scam. Plucked from a rural Puerto Rico orphanage administered by care giving nuns, the are relocated to a treeless concrete jungle surrounded by predators or every ilk.

But this isnt just Julio and Rosas story. It is also the story of a generation caught up in civil rights upheaval, immigration influx and anti Viet Nam war protesters. It is the story of ethnic urbanites and escapee suburbanites trying to preserve their post war development their schools their corner candy stores and the shopping malls that exemplify their new-found middle class.

It is the story of Eddie Palmer, a Black detective trying to resolve making it in the White world without targeting his contemporaries in the Black ghetto. Benny Valdez, a chosen exemplar in the quest to bring more of the swelling Latino population into the uniformed services, but ends up with personal baggage that outweighs what the system can absorb. And Police Captain Nino Angolotti, Precinct Commander and designated integrator of political hiring pressures, who is determined to keep his shrinking ethnic neighborhood intact notwithstanding the increased crime and poverty plus an invasive foreign language encroaching its boundaries.

Life In and Off the Beat is a smorgasbord of loves, lives and gut-wrenching circumstantial encounters for an array of characters finding themselves in the same melting pot ready to boil over.

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It is the mid 1960s thru the mid 1970s. The place is NYC. The atmosphere is thick with overhanging clouds of cultural upheaval and racial confrontation.

Into this world are dragged brother and sister Julio and Rosa Marino, pawns in a child-welfare scam. Plucked from a rural Puerto Rico orphanage administered by care giving nuns, the are relocated to a treeless concrete jungle surrounded by predators or every ilk.

But this isnt just Julio and Rosas story. It is also the story of a generation caught up in civil rights upheaval, immigration influx and anti Viet Nam war protesters. It is the story of ethnic urbanites and escapee suburbanites trying to preserve their post war development their schools their corner candy stores and the shopping malls that exemplify their new-found middle class.

It is the story of Eddie Palmer, a Black detective trying to resolve making it in the White world without targeting his contemporaries in the Black ghetto. Benny Valdez, a chosen exemplar in the quest to bring more of the swelling Latino population into the uniformed services, but ends up with personal baggage that outweighs what the system can absorb. And Police Captain Nino Angolotti, Precinct Commander and designated integrator of political hiring pressures, who is determined to keep his shrinking ethnic neighborhood intact notwithstanding the increased crime and poverty plus an invasive foreign language encroaching its boundaries.

Life In and Off the Beat is a smorgasbord of loves, lives and gut-wrenching circumstantial encounters for an array of characters finding themselves in the same melting pot ready to boil over.

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