The Job: True Tales from the Life of a New York City Cop Audiobook (Free)

‘How ya doin?’

With these four syllables, delivered within an unmistakably authentic NY accent, Steve Osborne has riveted a large number of people through the legendary storytelling outfit The Moth (and over a million times on the website) with his hilarious, profane, and touching tales from his two decades served as an NYPD street cop. Steve Osborne is the actual deal, people, the difficult streetwise New York cop of the dreams, one with a big big heart. Kojak? NYPD Blue? Laws & about The Job: True Stories from the life span of a New York Town Cop Order? Fuggedaboutem! The Job blows them out of the water with this unputdownable book.

Steve Osborne has seen a thing or two in his two decades in the NYPD-some harmless things, some not at all. In ‘Stakeout,’ Steve and his partner mistake a Manhattan dentist for an armed robbery suspect and decrease the man down to a puddle of snot and tears when questioning him. In ‘Mug Shot,’ the mom of the suspected criminal makes a unusual request and a sobering reminder from the humanity on the line in his career. And in ‘Home,’ the picture of his family members provides the adrenaline he must fight for his existence when assaulted by two equipped and violent crackheads. From his days as a first year cop to enough time spent patrolling in the Anti-Crime Unit-and his visceral, harrowing recollections of operating during 9/11-Steve Osborne’s stories capture both absurdity of law enforcement work and the bravery of these who do it. His tales will talk with those nostalgic for the New York Town of the 1980s and ’90s, a bygone period of when the town was a crazier, more threatening (and possibly even more interesting) place.

Includes two live tales from The Moth-Hot Canines and Dentist

Stories through the Moth courtesy of The Moth.