A review by blevins
The Job: True Tales from the Life of a New York City Cop by Steve Osborne

3.0

Ex-NYC cop Steve Osborne delivers a group of stories about his days as a cop--from his early period as a beat cop to when he was an officer. Told with his thick NYC accent [I listened to the audio version that Osborne reads], some stories are funny, some are sad. I love reading about cop life, so I enjoyed it, but at the end of the book Osborne has a few of his live appearances at The Moth and hearing him with a crowd--that is where the magic happens! I wish the entire audio book had been him telling the stories in front of people. Written down, they lost a bit of the spark, but with Osborne in front of a crowd, the stories were way more vivid and alive.