Word: policemanly
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...What does it mean," thinks a Boston policeman stopping a Black teenager speeding in a Saab turbo, "when Blacks can routinely live as good or better lives than I?" The policeman rebels against the thought, deciding that a kid having fun in a graduation present must be a felon, and so instead of receiving a moving violation, someone's child is dragged down to the station though he has registration in hand...
Thompson writes with humor, and experiences a certain amount of cynical amusement himself. At first the seriousness of the book is lost amid a series of cliches about Southern life. As the corrupt mayor, the high school sweetheart and the bumbling policeman are introduced, the book begins as a condemnation of the incestousness and stifling boredom of small-town America...
...such previous cases as The Black Tower and Shroud for a Nightingale, Dalgliesh focuses on himself as much as on the murders; deduction is a voyage of self-discovery. He thinks of himself as the "poet who no longer writes poetry. The lover who substitutes technique for commitment. The policeman disillusioned with policing...
...story of a fearless woman of indomitable character. It could be a story of a woman against the sea, against Mount Everest -- it has that adventure quality. We always think that the KGB cannot be resisted, but she resisted. You can almost see some wretched Soviet policeman wishing she would just go away...
Bonner, who returned to the U.S.S.R. on June 2, writes with stark directness of life under the baleful eye of the Committee for State Security, better known as the KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti). A policeman is posted outside the door to the Sakharovs' Gorky apartment virtually round the clock. They cannot step outdoors without a KGB escort. They are denied a telephone (they use pay booths or a special phone center). Because of jamming, they must go to the edge of town, where reception is good, to listen to the radio. There are touching moments of warmth between "Andryusha...