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Jimmy the Wags: Street Stories of a Private Eye Book

A tough former New York City cop turned private eye now turns himself into an author in this gritty (but often humorous) account of the armed and dangerous life. James Wagner ("Wags" to just about everybody, it appears) spent 22 years at the NYPD, but apparently felt like he hadn't had enough adventure in his life. After putting out word that "Wags is for hire," he gets his first job shepherding some jet-setting Arab princes around New York for a few days, and finds himself hooked as the money and perks start to roll in. 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. Not all of Wags's adventures are a matter of life or death: in one memorable passage, he plays bodyguard-valet to an eccentric woman ("heir to a computer software fortune") who travels everywhere with her pet parrot perched on her shoulder and has a penchant for disengaging her prosthetic hand at inopportune moments during meals. It's easy to fret over Wags's well-being as he whisks readers from one seriocomic adventure to the next, often with his erstwhile associate "Hondo," a former Army Ranger who favors Armani suits and, of course, prefers action to talk. And there's a sense that Wags was often confused about the particular direction in which his life was careening at any given moment. 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. --Tjames Madison Read More

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    "High-Wire Tales of the P.I. Life... You gotta love this guy."--Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguy

    "If Bruce Willis wrote like Mario Puzo and hung out with John Gotti, the result would be this tough, hilarious, consummately streetwise book."--Jack Newfield

    "Stocked with a stellar cast of swells and skells...rarely anything but fun."--New York Newsday

    "Action-packed."--Star

    "[An] antic memoir of high times and a hard fall as a P.I."--Kirkus Reviews

    "These streetwise recollections have the sound of tales told from a barstool."--Publishers Weekly

    "An entertaining glimpse into an on-the-edge lifestyle."--Booklist

  • 0451409272
  • 9780451409270
  • Jimmy Wagner, Patrick Picciarelli
  • 31 July 2000
  • New American Library
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 272
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