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Karen lynch was an unlikely person to become one of the first female cops in san francisco. This memoir is a non stop window into a world of strength, determinations, wiles, courage, brains and resilience. My daughter in law used it to help her learn english. This is the best book ever written about the british war on drugs. Good cop, bad daughter is an often humorous, poignant adventure story of karens journey from potsmoking cal student, to renaissance bar serving wench, to street cop. We watched it together and it is a dramacomedy kind of cop movie.

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