Jimmy the Wags: Street Stories of a Private Eye
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (836 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0688165117 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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4.5 stars for Jimmy. Shade's of 'The Shield' Jayson Olson Well, maybe a direct comparison to The Shield is a bit of a stretch, but the stories discussed within these pages about life and career of James Wagner (former NYPD) walks a fine line between legal and questionable.In this autobiographical look at his 'capers' post NYPD, you will be amazed that you keep turning the pages for his next installment. Mr. Wagner's (Wags) accounts are gripping, and his stories are arranged and written in a clean 'street-smart' way, that is very entertaining and right to the meat.He tells stories of. .5 stars for Jimmy. Shade's of 'The Shield' Well, maybe a direct comparison to The Shield is a bit of a stretch, but the stories discussed within these pages about life and career of James Wagner (former NYPD) walks a fine line between legal and questionable.In this autobiographical look at his 'capers' post NYPD, you will be amazed that you keep turning the pages for his next installment. Mr. Wagner's (Wags) accounts are gripping, and his stories are arranged and written in a clean 'street-smart' way, that is very entertaining and right to the meat.He tells stories of. From cop to mob shake-down enforcer: a slippery slope indeed saskatoonguy This New York ex-cop entertains us with tales of his career as a private investigator, which he defines unusually broadly, to include such jobs as bodyguard, collection agent, mafia go-fer, and manager of a topless bar. There are some great stories here, and the book is hard to put down.However, I was very disturbed by the contrast between the author's claims to wanting to do the right thing and the fact that he was doing some very illegal things, which he obviously had no trouble rationalizing to himself. The most extreme ex. Macho boastfulness and a bit of humanity Subtitled, "Street Stores of a Private Eye" by James Wagner, this true story of a retired cop who turned private eye is a fast and easy read. His co-author, Patrick Picciarelli, is a good writer and he makes Jimmy's story read like a well paced novel.Jimmy's full of swagger, wisecracks, and macho boastfulness and at first he annoyed me with his know-it-all attitude and narrow focus. Jimmy's always justifying his actions. And when he later ponders moral questions letting big bucks cloud his judgement as he starts to work for t
The rest of the book details Wags's rise and fall as a big-time "security consultant," from voyaging to Denmark to return a kidnapped child to his father to his entanglement with the Mob at a fancy strip club. But Jimmy the Wags is a rollicking memoir, and Wagner and coauthor Patrick Picciarelli make a real-life tough guy come off just like you'd want him to be: straight out of an Elmore Leonard novel, equal parts Joe Pesci and James Bond. A tough former New York City cop turned private eye now turns himself into
After twenty-two years as a New York cop, Jimmy the Wags thought he's seen it all, but it wasn't until he retired and set up as a private eye that his real education began. Now, in his own inimitable voice, he tells a true-life story with all the action, adventure, and atmosphere of Wiseguy or Serpico -- a colorful cautionary tale that reads like fiction.His first private job was to bodyguard a gaggle of Saudi princes and right away Wags was on a roll: debt collections, a blackmail case, and a divorce surveillance that gives new meaning to the phrase "man's best friend"; movie stars, private jets, car chases, even a helicopter getaway under fire during an international child custody kidnapping. As the stories pile up, the money gets better and the players get biggeruntil he settles in as security chief of an upscale strip club and suddenly finds himself trapped between the Mafia and a psychotic enforcer for the Russian mob.An up-close-and-personal look at a world we rarely see, from an honest-to-God character whose walk on the wild side ended up on the wrong side of the law.