Felony Fists

✍ Scribed by Tunney, Jack;Bishop, Paul

• Publisher: Fight Card Productions
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 84 KB
• Series: Fight Card 1
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Los Angeles 1954

Patrick Felony Flynn has been fighting all his life. Learning the sweet science from Father Tim the fighting priest at St. Vincents, the Chicago orphanage where Pat and his older brother Mickey were raised, Pat has battled his way around the world first with the Navy and now with the Los Angeles Police Department.

Legendary LAPD chief William Parker is on a rampage to clean up both the department and the city. His elite crew of detectives known as The Hat Squad is his blunt instrument dedicated, honest, and fearless. Promotion from patrol to detective is Pats goal, but he also yearns to be one of the elite.

And his fists are going to give him the chance.

Gangster Mickey Cohen runs LAs rackets, and murderous heavyweight Solomon King is Cohens key to taking over the fight game. Chief Parker wants wants Patrick Felony Flynn to stop him a tall order for middleweight ships champion with no professional record.

Leading with his chin, and with his partner, LAs first black detective Tombstone Jones, covering his back, Patrick Flynn and his Felony Fists are about to fight for his future, the future of the department, and the future of Los Angeles.
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Review

Father Tim at St. Vincent's in Chicago had a code he taught the boys: "Being a man had to do with standing up when you got knocked down, with always doing what you said you were going to do, and with fighting fair - never cheating, never taking what wasn't yours, and never, never, backing down from a challenge. "Felony Flynn" left the orphanage, joined the Navy at fifteen, and joined the LAPD, taking his code with him. He boxed at night at the Olympic Auditorium and, during the day, he patrolled the streets in his black-and-white. This story is about where boxing and the mob met, where Mickey Cohen sat ringside, hoping to control the fights and the gambling. Flynn, not only wouldn't take a dive for Cohen, but challenged him at every opportunity...This story is solidly set in the early fifties Los Angeles and is filled with historical references to Cohen and to Chief Parker. It is sort of a Black Dahlia meets Robert E. Howard's boxing stories and is cynical, hardboiled, tough-nosed, and pure unadulterated pulp. It has boxing, corruption, mobsters, dirty tricks, distrust, and good old-fashioned fighting fun.

About the Author

A 35 year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department, Paul Bishop is a nationally recognized behaviorist and deception detection expert. His high profile Special Assault Units regularly produced the highest number of detective initiated arrests and highest crime clearance rates in the city. Twice honored as LAPD's Detective of the Year, he also received the Quality and Productivity Commission Award from the City of Los Angeles...Starring as the lead interrogator and driving force behind the ABC TV reality show Take the Money and Run from producer Jerry Bruckheimer, Paul displayed his unique skills as a human lie detector to a nationwide audience. He is now a highly sought after resource for private companies faced with in-house data breaches, industrial espionage, and corporate sabotage...He is the author of fifteen novels and has written numerous scripts for episodic television and feature films.

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