Anytime Anywhere

by Samuel M. Katz

Book Overview

From the Empire State Building slaughter to the crash of TWA Flight 800, follow the front line action of the New York Police Department's Emergency Services Unit--in a riveting eyewitness account of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671003429
• ISBN13: 9780671003425
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.1" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Good Read!!

Excellent!! This is police work at it's best!! Pre-9/11 New York Police action. I'm a cop and I was impressed. Buy it. You won't regret it.

Katz and ESU don't solve world hunger

But, you came looking for police stories didn't you? The author writes well and the stories are interesting and for six bucks I can't see why everyone else is fussing. If the subject appeals to you track down his earlier work, "Nypd : On the Streets With the New York City Police Department's Emergency Service Unit" which is lavishly illustrated and filled with photos.

Eye Opening

Having very little knowledge of the New York City Police Department before buying this book, I found it to be a true guide through Manhattan's more dangerous sections. The stories are funny--perhaps an author's trick to mask the blood and bullets--and it almost makes me sorry that I am not a cop. Wish it had clearer photographs, though.

The real deal with the ESU

Being from NYC, I have seen these people operate my whole life. I have seen them at the WTC bombing, numerous subway disasters, people pushed under subway trains, the TWA 800 scene, Laguardia Airport and both US Air crashes, the Avianca airlines crash in Glen Cove, plus so many others. They are on the scene when, as Mr. Katz writes, "the police need the police". These guys run headon into a burning car or building to save people, are there when there is a car, motorcycle, truck or bus accident, people pinned, construction accidents, crane accidents, the LIRR shooting, first in on a warrant served or hostage...in other words when the poop hits the fan, the NYPD ESU is there. I have NO love for cops but I have alot of respect for these boys. I remember the night of the Bayside police officer shooting specifically because I was right there as it went down and also listened to it on my police scanner and these boys know their stuff. There is a reason other jurisdictions use their services. Mr. Katz has written an A-1 portrait of the NYPD ESU. He has captured their personalities and readers will be brought into the book...that is to say they will feel like they are spending the day riding along with the ESU. Kudos to Samuel Katz on a FINE book.