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Serpico By Peter Maas Sparknotes
The book titled Serpico by Peter Maas is a biography about a man named Frank Serpico. He was a police officer in New York City where he went against the system to put away corrupt officers; he was against corruption. Even though it was against unwritten law, he had no mercy for corruption in law enforcement. In chapter one, it introduced us to the main character, Frank Serpico. Frank Serpico is a thirty-five-year-old man who is the son of a Neapolitan shoemaker; his mother has had a series of heart issues and currently is battling the flu (Maas, 1973). He had a muscular physique along with brown curly hair and a full beard. In addition to the hippie look, it had a Winnie a Pooh necklace that a girl gave him when he was in Sweden (Maas, 1973).
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