#BlogTour-’10-33 Assist PC’ by Desmond Ryan

Welcome to my first Baker’s Blog Tours and Promo blog tour for 2019, it is for this fab police procedural , ’10-33 Assist PC’ by Desmond P Ryan.

Available at the link below, where you can read the first 3 chapters free, I found the book really authentic, coming as it does from someone who has a background in policing. The first in a planned series, this is a great introduction to main character, Mike O’Shea.

https://realdesmondryan.com/

After reading these chapters, you can buy the whole book from amazon for 99p prior to Book 2 being launched in February.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/10-33-Assist-OShea-Crime-Fiction-ebook/dp/B07H8HJ8VC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1547508875&sr=8-1&keywords=desmond+p+ryan

Here’s the blurb-

D/C Mike O’Shea, a young cop with a knack for working hard and following hunches, is on the verge of cracking a prostitution ring when an undercover from another unit burns him. With only days left before their pimps shuttle the girls out of the country, Mike pushes his team into overdrive. Hours later, with too little information, sleep, or luck, the unthinkable happens.

And now, the chase is personal.

In the first of the Mike O’Shea Crime Fiction Series, 10-33 Assist PC draws us into the dirty world of human trafficking through the eyes of the cops who put their lives on the line every day to shut it down. Written by a Real Detective, 10-33 Assist PC is the story of a cop who must decide how to move forward without forgetting the past.

10-33 Assist PC is radio code for officer down, send all units-it’s about as serious a call out to the police as you can get.

Mike and his partner Sal, work in the Canadian Juvenile Prostitution Task Force and have spent 2 years looking for a girl who vanished at 14 and may have resurfaced.

A 3 week stakeout of a possible holding house is ruined when the woman they are watching turns out to be an undercover agent. This double burn alerts the gang using the holding house and they disappear but not before they send a young girl out with a gun in an attempted ‘suicide by cop scenario.’

She is taken for questioning after being restrained and reveals that she was groomed by a good looking teen before being passed to a pimp. She and the other girls were to used then passed on across the border to Buffalo and finally disappearing at Niagara when they were no longer attractive.

A race against time and an inter agency operation swings into operation to try and track the sources of info to find the girls before they are moved .

I wanted to avoid using the word gritty, but this is exactly what it is. Mike and Sal are real cops with real banter, it feels totally natural reading their back and forth banter. They work in a very difficult and challenging part of police work which rarely has a happy ending and it’s a fascinating insight into a very dark part of policing.

The book is a slim 170 pages but so much story is packed into it, it feels like you are reading the script of a tv show which has yet to be made. The closeness of the partners, their families and interpersonal friendships come across with such authenticity that it could only have been written by an experienced policeman.

I cannot wait to read the rest in the projected 6 part series ! Roll on February!
Many thanks to the author, Desmond Ryan and Shell Baker for having me on the blog tour.

About the Author

Very few books give you the real crime experience because even fewer authors have it.
Desmond P. Ryan has it.
For almost thirty years, he worked the back alleys, poorly-lit laneways, and forgotten neighbourhoods in the city where he grew up. Murder often most unkind, assaults on a level that defied humanity, and sexual violations intended to demean, shame, and haunt the victims were all in a day’s work. Days, evenings, midnights–all the same. Crime knows no time.
Exhilarating. Exhausting. Often heart-breaking.
Whether as a beat cop or a plainclothes detective, Desmond Ryan dealt with good people who did bad things and bad people who followed their instincts. He wrote thousands of reports describing their lives, the places they lived, and the things they did. He investigated their crimes and wrote detailed accounts of the activities that brought him into their world. Detective Ryan also held victims as they wept, talked desperate people off of ledges, and sat beside the decomposing bodies of men and women who, in life, had been discarded and long-forgotten by society.
Now, as a retired detective with three decades of research opportunities under his belt, Desmond Ryan write crime fiction.
Why?
Because he wants to tell you a story like no other. Because he wants to bring you inside a world that will both fascinate you and challenge what you thought you knew about human nature. Because he wants to seamlessly weave truth and fiction together to create a place for you where the Good Guys ultimately win.
And because you deserve to have the most authentic crime fiction experience every time you pick up one of Desmond Ryan’s books.