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22 years on The Job in New York's most notorious precinct.Let James "Jimmy the Wags" Wagner take you behind the badge and into the daily drama of working New York City's toughest job in New York City's toughest precinct-before civilian review boards, before gentrification, and before political correctness. It's the NYPD as you've never seen it before-from a street cop who walked the walk through the turbulent '60s, the violent '70s, and the drug-fueled '80s. Unbelievable war stories from a man who's seen it all… The street soldiers of the Ninth Precinct-the drunk, the Vietnam vet, and the "Clubber" The precinct's resident vampire, a woman who paid addicts $5 to suck their blood The friendly cult leader who painted a mysterious ring of circles on the sidewalk for four months before revealing its tragic purpose The neighborhood's rowdy-yet respectable-contingent of Hell's Angels Celebrity misdeeds and misdemeanorsWagner, James is the author of 'My Life in the NYPD: Jimmy the Wags' with ISBN 9780451410245 and ISBN 0451410246.
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