The Northern

By Dennis Norris

In San Francisco's Tenderloin District, truth is always stranger than fiction. Allen Tooley has been dishonorably discharged from the US Navy and makes his way from his home in Knoxville, Tennessee to the Tenderloin District of San Francisco. There he meets Emerald Strapp, the local methamphetamine distributer. Tooley soon finds himself at odds with Strapp and is left to support his growing meth habit by smashing the San Francisco Chronicle paper boxes and collecting the spillage. Unfortunately for him, the midnight watch cops of San Francisco Police Department's Northern Station have a tradition of grabbing the sports page and cup of coffee in the morning, and Tooley is unwittingly defiling their culture. The cops want him badly.Woven within the search for Tooley is a typical night in The Northern, bringing to life the various police partnerships and frequent station wallflowers. What follows is a fast-paced, raunchy and realistic dance of cops and criminals that is dead-on in terms of language, incessant practical joking, highs and lows of emotion, and occasional misuse of power.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1495486087
• ISBN13: 9781495486081
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.9" x 6.0"