Uncle Janice
  • Published:
    Jan-2015 (Hardcover)
    Nov-2015 (Paperback)
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  • Main Genre:
    Literary
  • Pages:
    288
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Twenty-four-year-old Janice Itwaru is an “uncle” -- NYPD lingo for an undercover narcotics officer -- and the heroine of the most exuberant and original cop novel in years.

A New York City cop who can last eighteen months in Narcotics, without getting killed or demoted first, will automatically get promoted to detective. Undercover narc Janice Itwaru is at month seventeen. Ambitious, desperate for that promotion, she hits the sidewalks of Queens in her secondhand hoochie clothes, hoping to convince potential criminals -- drug dealers, addicts, dummies, whomever -- to commit a felony on her behalf. And things aren't any easier back at the narco office, where she has to keep up with the bantering lies and inventively cruel pranks of her fellow uncles while coping with the ridiculous demands of her NYPD bosses.

With an ailing mother at home, her cover nearly blown, quota pressures from her superiors, and rumors circulating that Internal Affairs has her unit under surveillance, Janice is running terribly short on luck as her promotion deadline approaches. Now she has to decide which evil to confront: the absurd bureaucrats at One Police Plaza, or the violent drug dealers who may already be on to her identity.

Bursting with the glorious chaos of the New York City streets, Uncle Janice is both a deeply funny portrait of how undercover cops really talk and act, and a compelling story of their crazy, dangerous, and complicated lives.
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    •  
    • Nov-2015
    • Anchor
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0345803442
    • ISBN13: 9780345803443
    • First Edition
    • Jan-2015
    • Doubleday
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0385536801
    • ISBN13: 9780385536806
    •  
    • Jan-2015
    • Knopf
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 038553681X
    • ISBN13: 9780385536813
    •  
    • Jan-2015
    • Highbridge Audio
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1622316088
    • ISBN13: 9781622316083
    •  
    • Jan-2015
    • HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
    • Audible
    •  
    • Apr-2015
    • Thorndike Press
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 141047819X
    • ISBN13: 9781410478191
    • Large Print



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