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Buy this book on-line BEELER, STEPHEN P: : THE FIRESTONE SYNDROME - A Novel. [Author SIGNED copy & related ephemera.]US.SARASOTA,FL.ADVOCATE HOUSE,2002. ISBN 0970657641.
US,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.[Complete number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.] No owner inscrptn,but author's black ink,warmly dedicated with signature and (a later) date: 'Charlotte Thank You.I sure hope you
enjoy the story Best Wishes Stephen P. Beeler.4-21-08.',no price-clip - absence of publisher's price.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy,colour pictorial illustrated upper panel,with red fluorescent gilt,silver+ black lettering,critics' reviews to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - though some inevitable but light and superficial scoring/indents - without affecting the boards beneath.
Internally to dw/dj,a waterstain to length of front inner flap's crease,smaller near imperceptible waterstains to both head+foot of spine/backstrip also - nothing visible externally and WITHOUT affecting the boards beneath at all.Top rear corner minimally bumped.Though top edges bright and generally clean,some very faint and near imperceptible dust-soiling(?) spotting, fore-edges bright and generally clean too, though a light trace of waterstaining to foot at bottom of page edges,but invisible internally.Bottom edges similarly affected with watermarks towards spine/backstrip edges and towards the fore-edges edge. Described hard,but fairly and honestly and in detail (probably too much!) - nowhere as bad as it reads or may sound!Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's black flecked,white paper-covered boards with dark grey cloth blind spine,with red fluorescent gilt ink letters to spine/ backstrip and white endpapers.Feps show small,slight waterstain to spine/backstrip's gutter's edge with
another noticeable,small colour bled
waterstain to bottom right-hand corner which has lightly and very faintly affected the same corner to the following half-title page.Associated and included ephemera of author's own personal,headed notepaper typewritten dated (April 21,2008) letter to recipient dedicatee (Charlotte) explaining donation of book and inclusion of his resume describing his law enforcement experience in L.A County Sheriff's Dept (for 21 years),his law enforcement consulting services to film production companies etc.[The recipient has some connection to/with Two Four Studios,Bush Park,Estover,Plymouth,Devon.UK.] His resume includes design,development and management of private guarded security operations, seminars etc.,lists his achievements and career achievements,a card bookmark,and a b/w photocopied,folded A4 paper sheet,of two US police deputies (one of them holding an automatic rifle/shotgun - standing behind a written placard stating 'Turn left of Get Shot') at Firestone Station during the Sixties,just after the riots of 1965. Where folded in half,the bottom,right-hand edge has a waterstain - which when placed within the feps,is revealed to be the source of the waterstain marking to the book!
Author Stephen Beeler,worked for the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department for 21 years, serving as everything from a patrol officer to working in administration.He knows law enforcement,and what can go wrong with it.
'The Firestone Syndrome' portrays what happens when officers of the law act above the law,taking things into their own hands. It also shows the checks and balances that provide damage control,and the bravery of thse who patrol their own.
The "Stoney Boys," an elitist group of deputies assigned to the Firetone Station in South Central Los Angeles accept the axiom "absence of crime" - just not the method by which it should be achieved. Through the hard work of their superiors and one very brave fellow officer,this network of renegade cops is revealed and dealt with - but not without danger to their opposition.
Fiction? Yes,but as Deputy Chief of
Police Robert P. White of Flagstaff,AZ,put it,"This story reflects what can happen when the 'police' think that they are at war with their community.Who becomes the 'enemy'? Although situated in Los Angeles,
this syndrome can occur anywhere that police leaders aren't diligent.
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