{"product_id":"busting-bad-guys-book-mark-langan-9780991311019","title":"Busting Bad Guys","description":"\u003cb\u003e13 seconds of pure terror in a shootout with a drug dealer. Real crime. Real-life cop stories.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSergeant Mark Langan relives his front-row seat working the seamier side of crime during his decorated twenty-six-year career from youngest rookie in 1978 to narcotics sergeant on the Omaha Police force. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLangan caught bold burglars who silently entered homes to get thrills off of touching sleeping victims. He hit bookie joints in smoke-filled bars, squeezed snitches for information, and arrested prostitutes and their everyday Johns in dangerous downtown alleys. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLangan worked his way up the ranks to command undercover narcotics operations in the 1980s when sinister LA gangbangers invaded Omaha and claimed neighborhoods to sell crack. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his celebrated career, Langan felt the gut-wrenching pain of innocent children caught inside the wicked world of drugs and crime, their safe worlds shattered when the battering ram knocked down their doors-their cries haunt him every day. And two players from his past reemerge in startling ways. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBusting Bad Guys delivers a graphic and authentic look at solid policing on the streets of America's heartland and takes readers inside the high-adrenaline, top-secret investigations to develop innovative tactics to outsmart the criminals. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSteven Eskew, book reviewer and writer in New York City, says Langan relates his many adventures with meat and potatoes precision, illustrating a cop's life with detailed imagery but without sensationalizing the excitement. He balances his memoir by sharing his years-later encounter with One-Eyed Jack's daughter, (the drug dealer that was killed during a shoot out at the beginning of the book), and an update on a childhood playmate who had descended into prostitution. The book's sheer readability and intriguing subject matter makes you sorry to find yourself on the final page.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50763699355921,"sku":"CIN0991311019G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51011008561425,"sku":"NIN9780991311019","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51695417557265,"sku":"CIN0991311019VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52819309199633,"sku":"CIN0991311019A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0991311019.jpg?v=1751046414","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/busting-bad-guys-book-mark-langan-9780991311019","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}