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"""The most absobring cop memoir you will read this year--maybe ever."" - TJ English, NY Times Bestselling author (Havana Nocturne, The Westies). Retired Homicide Detective Ramesh Nyberg describes in rich detail his remarkable journey growing up in Miami as the child of an Indian school teacher and Swedish boat-builder. Nyberg considers Miami his only real sibling, and weaves jarring stories of murder and cocaine smugglers into poignant memories of his childhood and life lessons he learned sailing the waters of south Florida. Ramesh spares no details as he brings the reader into crime scenes and the horrors of real violence, while also conveying the ironies and often humorous aspects of law enforcement. This book is filled with riveting stories, bizarre and often dangerous pursuits of violent offenders, heart-wrenching scenes of grieving families, and gripping behind-the-scenes descriptions of suspects' confessions. The book flashes back frequently to pivotal moments of Ramesh's childhood that luminesce later in his life as guiding lessons in his career as a law enforcement officer. This is unlike any police memoir in existence; it is brutal, honest, and revealing, highlighting a colorful--and violent--time in Miami's history that will likely never occur again."

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Ramesh Nyberg was born in India in 1958 and arrived in the U.S. on New Year's Day, 1959 on a freighter. Since then he has lived in Miami, and became a police officer in 1979. He spent five years as a uniformed police officer during Miami's historic crime wave of the early 1980's. In 1985 became a homicide investigator in the Miami-Dade Police Department's elite Homicide Bureau, where he spent the rest of his career before retiring in 2006. He has six children and teaches Criminal Justice classes at a Miami magnet high school. Ramesh is working on a novel, and says he will continue to write fiction.

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