{"product_id":"service-with-a-sneer-the-unrepentant-recollections-of-an-old-school-cop-paperback","title":"Service With a Sneer: The Unrepentant Recollections of An Old-School Cop - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn J. Lamb\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAre you ready for a stroll down memory alley?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCan you recall a time when cops arrested rioters who were setting fire to buildings and vandalizing historical monuments? Remember when shoplifters actually went to jail? Imagine an era when violent lunatics weren't allowed to wander freely through neighborhoods and menace residents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDon't you wish you lived in a time when the police were allowed to do their jobs?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRetired Southern California homicide detective John J. Lamb remembers those days because he was there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eService With a Sneer is the first volume in his entertaining, sardonic, and unremorseful memoirs. The book takes the bold reader on a journey a half-century into the past. It's an era before computers, automated license plate readers, and body cams. It's a time when Tasers didn't exist and the only \"less lethal\" options open to police officers were nightsticks and fists. Yet those old-time cops did a pretty fair job keeping the streets safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tale begins in the early 1960s. Lamb was a little boy with the deck stacked against him. He suffered from a crippling bone disease that forced him to wear a full metal leg brace, was so myopic he was legally blind, and was the victim of brutal and regular child abuse. Yet his improbable dream was to become a police officer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe made that goal a reality. First, in 1974 when he joined the USAF Security Police and five years later when he became a deputy sheriff with the Riverside County Sheriff's Department, working in the desert and tourist cities near Palm Springs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLamb's stories include: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow his work with British police detectives on a major and successful drug trafficking investigation led to his being targeted as a troublemaker by his USAF commanding officer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow following shoe impressions in the desert sands led him to a pair of professional cat burglars who were pillaging homes in an exclusive community of millionaires.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis surprising observation while working a traffic security detail for then President-elect Ronald Reagan's motorcade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome readers might remember Lamb as the author of a series of \"cozy\" mystery novels set in the warm world of collectible teddy bears. Don't look for anything cute and cuddly in his newest book. Instead, he freely mixes tragedy with absurdity as he shares tales about vicious fights, high-speed fatal traffic crashes, the terrorist attack that wasn't, and how he convinced a woman that he had the know-how to evict Satan from her apartment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe stories are shocking, infuriating, ironic, heart-rending, and sometimes gruesomely funny. Best of all, they're all true.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 316\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.71 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978224304429,"sku":"9781959620730","price":27.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/erG-27EkbH9781959620730.webp?v=1775801117","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/service-with-a-sneer-the-unrepentant-recollections-of-an-old-school-cop-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}