The Ambulance Made Two Trips

About the book

Detective Sergeant Fitzgerald refuses the anonymous gifts through which Big Jake Connors is quietly softening police resistance to his rackets. When strange mishaps begin to overtake men connected with threats against a cleaning business, Fitzgerald investigates its unusually composed owner, Brink. The incidents look accidental, yet their timing and targets suggest a pattern that ordinary police work cannot readily explain. Books about psychic phenomena and an unobtrusive device complicate the detective's understanding of what is happening. Leinster blends a crime story with a speculative mechanism that changes the balance between intimidation and self-defense. The humor comes from watching accustomed instruments of coercion fail while an honest policeman tries to decide what, if anything, he can prove.

• Corruption
• Unexpected resistance
• Probability and power

Why read it

Read it for a compact comic collision between organized intimidation and an ingenious form of protection.

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