"Mike has the
best stories
!"
"You should write a book!"
I heard this more times than I can count. I kept thinking to myself, "I do have good stories, but who wants to read another cop book?"
Then I was diagnosed with
Asperger syndrome
, and realized -
I had a story to tell
- something different...something special!
The stories people found interesting and unique were not ordinary cop stories but
cop stories with a twist!
Not the adventures of your everyday cop but one with
rare neurological wiring
!
I started to write, and with the help of the eidetic memory that comes with the Asperger package, I soon had the makings of four books. And, when I looked at the two books about my adventures as a uniformed cop and the two books of adventures as a detective; I needed a fifth!
I needed a prequel to the police department. A foundational book, if you will, about life with undiagnosed Asperger syndrome that eventually led me to the police department and beyond!
This is that book:
The first in a series detailing my
unique adventures, trials and triumphs
from childhood in a crowded SW Philly
row-home-city-state
, populated by the apex of the Boom - when grade school classes strained at the seams with 100 children per class and city busses tottered under the weight of high school students packed to the doors - set in the most interesting times of the last century: the '60s and '70s!
This book starts in the crib and flows to the steps of the Philadelphia Police Academy where the adventure matures and continues with those "best stories" -
authentic stories
- straight from heart of Philly.