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Welcome to Dedicated. I'm your host Doug Brunt. Today we're talking with Adam Plantinga.

Adam is the award-winning author of the nonfiction book, 400 Things Cops Know, which the

Wall Street Journal called The New Bible for Crime Writers. And Lee Child said of it, quote, this reads like a mix of

hard-boiled autobiography and streetwise poetry. Adam came to know all these things through experience

more than 20 years on the force. He's currently a sergeant with the San Francisco Police Department

assigned to street patrol. He's now out with his fiction debut titled The Ascent, which Harlan

Coben describes as jaw-dropping, authentic, and absolutely gripping. Adam, welcome to the show.

Hey, thanks for having me. I appreciate it. My pleasure. So we're going to have some coffee black

today, hot enough to burn. Yes. Cheers. Cheers.

So I wanted to give writers a brief sense of your writing because listeners should know you are also an amazing follow on Twitter and on social media.

So I follow you and I get some great stories from what's happening on the job.

I do like the Twitter.

It's fantastic.

And it also reflects a bit of your sense of humor.

So I just wanted to read one here.

This is a double tweet from an experience you had on the streets of San Francisco.

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