Good evening, everyone, and welcome to Police Off the Cuff, Real Crime Stories.

I'm your host, Retired NYPD Sergeant Bill Cannon, a 27-year veteran of the NYPD.

And today we're going back into doing the crime and author series.

And we have a really interesting, amazing writer on the show today.

And his name is Marshall Cork. And his new book is

NYPD Red, the 1159 bomber. Unbelievable. This is the eighth, obviously, in this series.

And he's done very well with this series. And there's a little picture of Marshall up on the

screen. And I'm going to tell you a little picture of Marshall up on the screen.

And I'm going to tell you a little bit about Marshall.

Marshall Corp has written hundreds of commercials, dozens of sitcoms, a play, a feature film, a documentary, and 15 novels.

Many of them, number one New York Times bestsellers.

But if you look at his high school yearbook, most of his classmates wrote,

good luck in dental school.

So what happened?

Several teachers convinced him that his passion for writing could be a career.

He traded the dental drill for a pen and honed his craft as a reporter and editor for the

school newspaper at Rutgers University.

After serving in the U.S. Army,

he took a job as a copywriter in New York City advertising agency. His innovative style and his natural ability to connect with his audience led to a series of award-winning campaigns that propelled

him to the role of executive creative director. It was a dream job, but supervising 100 people left him no time to do what he loved.

Right.

Right.

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