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Cop Without a Badge: The Extraordinary Undercover Life of Kevin Maher

by Charles Kipps

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An informant’s pursuit of police work from outside the force

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An informant’s pursuit of police work from outside the force

Charles Kipps centers this true-crime account on Kevin Maher, a confidential informant whose work brought him into cases involving robbery, extortion, and homicide alongside the NYPD, FBI, DEA, and other agencies. Maher’s earlier felony conviction, stemming from a Grand Theft Auto arrest at sixteen, barred him from becoming a police officer—the role he had wanted. The book frames his unusually prominent and highly paid career as an informant through that tension: law-enforcement access without official status, and professional ambition shaped by a closed path into policing.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • True-crime readers interested in confidential informants and undercover work
  • Readers interested in the overlap between law enforcement and criminal justice
  • Those seeking nonfiction centered on cases involving robbery, extortion, and homicide

Themes

Confidential informantsUndercover law enforcementCrime and investigationAmbition and identityBarriers to policing

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WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A COP AND KEVIN MAHER? KEVIN DOESN'T HAVE A BADGE. AND HE DOESN'T PLAY BY THE RULES.

Cop Without a Badge tracks confidential informant Kevin Maher as he helps the NYPD, the FBI, and many other law enforcement agencies solve cases that range from robbery to extortion to homicide. In the process, Kevin becomes the highest paid CI the DEA ever had.

But Kevin's motives are more complicated than simply money. Having been arrested for Grand Theft Auto at the age of sixteen, his felony conviction prevents him from being what he always wanted to be: a police officer. So now he's out to prove to himself he truly is what he could've been. A cop. Even without a badge.
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