GANGSTA STORY by John R. Taylor
I met John Taylor at a PSWA conference several years ago--and had the good fortune to visit him once again at another PSWA conference.
I asked him what was his motivation for writing this particular story, and here's his answer:
"Much too often, IMHO, police procedural novels follow an
all-too-familiar story-line. With this book, I wanted to write an
outside-the-box tale that broke from the standard formula, where the "good
guy" protagonist inevitably triumphs in the end.
Instead, I crafted
an anti-hero in the vein of characters that Clint Eastwood portrayed in the many
spaghetti westerns he made popular in the 1970's. Rather than Eastwood's
"mysterious stranger" who rides into town to save the day, however, I
place my "bad guy" in a critical situation where he experiences a
crisis of conscience, and the decision he makes will determine whether
thousands of people live or die."
You can read the blurb on the back of the book.
Here is John's bio in his own words:
I've worn a uniform
virtually all my adult life. I played minor league baseball in the New
York Yankee organization for two years; I did a tour of duty in Vietnam with
the 101st Airborne Division, the Screaming Eagles; and I was a police officer
for the City of San Leandro and the City of Oakland for thirty-one years.
Gangsta Story is my eighth novel. And, like everyone else,
I'm waiting for the "all clear" to sound, so that I can emerge from
my COVID-19 bunker and resume normal life once again.
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