Superbia Books

The Most Dangerous Police Book Ever Written... After Frank O'Ryan gets shot, his first assignment is working with the most disliked man in his police department, Detective Vic Ajax. Ajax isn't like the other cops. He doesn't like them and they don't like him. He steals trash from suspected drug dealers, searching for evidence. He conducts a futile war with an administration that thinks the only sign of a good cop is writing traffic tickets and waving to soccer moms during school crossings. He hunts pedophiles. Now, Frank will enter a world where being real police means laying so much of your soul on the line, you might not make it out. But as Vic explains, if it keeps a little girl from having to testify about what some monster did to her, it's worth it. Together, they'll resort to any means necessary to take down the scumbags, even if it means employing the interrogative services of a man in a six-foot bunny costume called The Truth Rabbit. Readers the world over have called Superbia's author the 21st Century Ed McBain novel and the successor to Joseph Wambaugh. Both a best-selling author and career police officer, Bernard Schaffer's experience in patrol, narcotics, and investigations has filled the pages with a degree of accuracy and bold, raw, truth that cannot be found in any other work of literature. Often compared to The Wire, the Superbia books have been called the "Most subversive" account of law enforcement since Serpico.

Police Officer Frank O'Ryan's life hasn't gotten any easier since becoming his department's only Not-Even-Promoted Detective. His mentor Vic is dead and gone, and yet still insists on harassing Frank to settle the score with their nemesis, the sadistic Chief Erinnyes. The clock is ticking until Frank's final showdown, but first there are drug dealers to pursue, a beautiful new CI with grabby hands to avoid, and a violent murderer to apprehend. Superbia 2 picks up where the first best-selling entry in the series left off and continues the groundbreaking series about what it's like to wear the badge. Not the fancy places you always hear about like New York and LA. The down and dirty suburbs where there's no back up and only the suck-ups survive.

Everything Comes to an End. In the third and penultimate volume of what has been called "The Most Dangerous Police Book Ever Written," the epic journey of Detective Frank O'Ryan comes to a heart-stopping conclusion. Frank has made a career out of fighting the corruption that plagues police work, but now the rules have changed and it will be all he can do to survive his last few days on The Job.Over one hundred thousand readers around the world have declared Bernard Schaffer the successor to Joseph Wambaugh, Ed McBain, and Michael Connelly, but the Superbia series stands alone. It is the funniest, rawest, most penetrating look at what life is really like for the cops who put their souls on the line just to get the job done.

Part 4 of the Most Dangerous Police Story Ever Told... A police career is a long and dangerous thing, and many don't make it all the way to the end. The Superbia series has always focused on the efforts of cops like Frank O'Ryan, but in Book 4, it pivots to reveal the dark side of police work and those who cannot escape it. From the paranoid ramblings of a formerly brutal cop who can't stand retirement, to a narcotics officer turned sinister criminal, Superbia 4 carries on the series' trademark wit, tragedy, and dark humor.