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I Am Not a Cop!
I Am Not a Cop
Author: Richard Belzer, Michael Black
IN THIS CAPTIVATING, OFTEN HILARIOUS DEBUT MYSTERY, ONE OF THE GREAT COMEDIANS OF OUR TIME BLENDS FACT WITH FICTION, AS LAW & ORDER: SVU'S RICHARD BELZER'S OFF-CAMERA PERSONA COMES TO LIFE ON THE PAGE, EMPLOYING INVESTIGATIVE KNOW-HOW AND COMEDIC TIMING IN EQUAL MEASURE TO SOLVE THE MYSTERY SURROUNDING THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ...  more »

When Richard Belzer meets Rudy Markovich, NYC medical examiner, for dinner in Brighton Beach, he has little reason to expect anything more than a friendly bull session. But in the next twenty-four hours Belzer finds himself in the middle of a vicious street brawl, splashed across the tabloid headlines as an out-of-control celeb, and fearing for the life of his good pal Rudy -- who police assume is sleeping at the bottom of the East River.

As Belzer finds himself increasingly required to call upon the resources he taps to portray Detective Munch on NBC, he maintains his sense of humor and carries us along on a rollicking ride through the underworld of New York City. With Rudy kidnapped, or worse, it falls to The Belz to track him down and solve the riddle to the vanishing act.

The lives of Detective Munch and Richard Belzer collide and mesh in I Am Not a Cop! as one of America's great comics and TV cops brings all of his talents to bear in book form and provides a triumph of the mystery genre.
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ISBN-13: 9781416570677
ISBN-10: 1416570675
Publication Date: 9/8/2009
Pages: 272
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2.6 stars, based on 7 ratings
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 1
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An interesting fictional account of what it would be like if Richard Belzer was to try and solve a mystery on his own. If you have enjoyed his Detective Munch and like his sense of humor then you will enjoy this book.

I have liked him since Homicide and couldn't wait to read the book and was not disappointed. It never lagged and kept me reading until the end. It reads like real life though it is fiction (as he stresses). His first foray into fiction is a winner. Good suspense, interesting characters and good humor.

After a good friend acts strange during a dinner and the mysteriously disappears, Richard Belzer becomes concerned. Add in the disinterest of the police and you find him on the trail to find out what happened to his dear friend. His sidekick personal assistant Kali adds to the story and as they go off on their own investigation you are taken along for the ride. Cleverly mixing his personal crusade to find his friend with periods of time spent on the set, you feel like you are looking into his life even though again, this is fiction.
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