Title: A Prison of the Mind
Author: Joe Talon
Date: 2023
Publisher: Mirador
Quote: "We want you and in return you get your freedom."
When Dale Valentine, drug dealer, crooked police officer, sentenced to fourteen years, is offered a chance to work undercover with the police again, he'll take it. Anything to get out of "Wormwood Scrubs." But his real challenge is readjusting to being out of prison; just four years inside have placed him in a prison of the mind.
I don't know enough to rate this book. It seemed to me that, for a policeman, Valentine took a long time stressing before working out the first plan that would have occurred to any amateur, and he was taking a long chance that the criminals wouldn't have anticipated it. But some criminals are awfully stupid and the author's conscious intention may have been to show that slow thinking is part of the "prison of the mind."
A rather large number of the word count Amazon demanded for this book consists of trailers for half a dozen different longer books in this series and in other series. This novella is short, which some readers will like. If you need to write a book report overnight, you might lose some points for choosing a work of genre fiction, but you could do worse in this genre: There's lots of suspense and danger, but Valentine gets to save lives instead of ending them while buying himself more time outside of prison.
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