Abuse of Power
   Nancy Taylor Rosenberg
  1997 A Dutton Book/Penguin Books Inc. NY USA
   ISBN: 0525937684


When a police officer witnesses vicious abuses of power by members of her shift, the graveyard guard, she reports what she's seen. Harassment & abuse are metered out onto her as the cozy, lucrative conspiracy comes unraveled.

I did not like this book one bit! Nancy Taylor Rosenberg has taken a grim & horrible subject, written a gripping & despairing story. I do, however, recommend it for several reasons.

One is that it had me screaming at the heroine for taking such ludicrous risks, wishing, like the blazes, she'd get a copy of Gavin de Becker's The Gift[also reviewed], shaking my head so much my husband emerged from his book to ask me what was wrong.

Two, it scares me that this may well be representative of this new police force our President is so proud about, in which case we're in deep trouble because these officers are all as rotten as the alleged criminals against which the police are to protect us.

Three, it's unrelenting bad news. I found myself groaning, how bad does it have to get before she gets it, before she makes a decision. Trouble is she doesn't. She ignores all her nstincts, she quashes her alarms & trundles on into mortal combat with forces no one could have seen coming except that....

Now, I've read other Nancy Taylor Rosenbergs which haven't left me with such a bad taste & don't get me wrong, while I didn't like this read, I did learn a lot from it!

Also by Nancy Taylor Rosenberg: Mitigating Circumstances, Interest of Justice, First Offense, California Angel and Trial by Fire
(05/02/99)

Rebecca