The Duck Theory

The Duck Theory

<p>Lawrence J. Rupp is the kind of cop who walks into a group of drug dealers in South Los Angeles and pulls up a milk crate for a chat. He’s the officer with all the good stories. <br /></p><p>Even on his honeymoon in Mexico, on a chartered flight, along with twenty-one other passengers, the new couple’s plane crashed into a swamp mixed with sewage water overspill and loaded with hundreds of crocodiles, snakes and leeches. </p><br /><br /><p>In his mostly hilarious, sometimes sad, and always honest debut book, <i>The Duck Theory</i>, Rupp shares a cross-section of some of his most hair-raising experiences on the police force. He describes patrolling the streets on the hunt for crooks; in the world of law enforcement, sometimes the old adage, “If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, it’s probably a duck,” is true—but sometimes it’s not. Rupp candidly details having to confront and analyze offenders’ daily behavior in order to categorize them as a threat or simply as people enjoying themselves on the wrong side of the law.</p><br /><br /><p>Full of stories that could each be its own action movie, <i>The Duck Theory</i> will surprise you again and again with its honesty, humor, and insight into the baffling world of Los Angeles crime.</p>