False Stature

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Summary: Incredible!
Review: False Stature is a gripping who-dunnit from the very first page! The excitement and suspense will keep the reader on the edge of their seats. McGowan's talent is immense and one of the brightest new talents to shine in this or any other genre. I highly recommend this author who is destined for the best seller lists, right along side James Patterson. I can't wait for his next release, Echoes of Ignorance.

Great job!

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Summary: FALSE STATURE
Review: Move over Joseph Wambaugh, there is a new guy on the block, and he is taking over.

If you have read any of Wambaugh's books (New Centurions, The Choirboys, etc) and liked them, you will absolutely love Dennis McGowan's FALSE STATURE.

Frankie Driscoll and Jim Mackery grew up together in the same West Bronx neighborhood. One evening while exploring the alleys of their neighborhood, the boys happen on a murder in progress. Unseen by the perpetrator they manage to get out of there and safely back home.

Both boys dreamed of becoming members of the NYPD. But this dream soon turns into a nightmare. Frankie witnesses his cousin, Joey, being murdered by a rogue cop. He suddenly finds himself "set-up", and spending his first years as a rookie cop in Sing Sing in an undercover operation. Jim, on the other hand, seems to flourish in his quest to become a detective. On the first day of service, he manages to catch a cop killer. Something that even the more seasoned detectives had not been able to do. Mistrust between the two childhood friends starts to manifest itself, and things just don't seem to be working out like they had dreamed it would.

After Frankie's release from prison, he agrees to work as an undercover cop, and in doing so Jim and Frankie team up together to catch the cop that had murdered Joey.

From page one, Mr. McGowan grabs the reader in this very real story. FALSE STATURE is not only a book about the NYPD, but also a story about friends. How their friendship is tested, and how they handle that testing. It is a story of what goes on behind the scenes of the police department, and in the neighborhoods of The Bronx. The descriptions of the scenery are so vivid, and real that you can hear the Ell as it thunders overhead, smell the exhaust from the cars, hear the sirens as the police cars scream around the corner to yet another emergency, and smell the urine and body odors that emit from the jail cells. You actually feel the fear that the characters feel, as they find themselves in terrifying situations.

Mr. McGowan sets up a sensational plot full of action. His characters are so real that the reader has a difficult time remembering that FALSE STATURE is a book of fiction. He tells a story, one that you can't put down.

FALSE STATURE is an absolutely wonderful, dramatic, fast paced book that has been written by a talent who knows how to grab your attention, and doesn't let it go. I cannot recommend this book too highly. You have just got to read FALSE STATURE, by Dennis J McGowan.

I will repeat what I said at the beginning, "move over Joseph Wambaugh, there is a new guy on the block, and he is taking over". And Dennis J. McGowan is that new guy.

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Summary: A Spine-Tingling Crime Thriller!
Review: Secrets drive this fast-paced police thriller. Two young men, childhood friends, with dreams of serving on the prestigious New York Police Department, find their lives headed in opposite directions. ...

Author Dennis J. McGowan is a natural storyteller, and his characters are finely-drawn and believable. As surprise after surprise is sprung on the reader, a bond forms between his characters and the reader, particularly the vulnerable Frankie, who cannot tell anyone that he is working as an undercover officer. His angst grows as his buddy receives accolades and achievements, while Frankie is consorting with criminals in the course of his undercover work. He begins to act rashly, desperately wanting to be known as "one of the good guys," yet realizing that if he tells anyone all his hard work will be destroyed.

This first book by retired police detective McGowan offers the promise of even more wonderful, and authentic, work to come.

This book is a keeper.