Apprehensions & Convictions: Adventures of a 50-Year-Old Rookie Cop

What makes a fifty-year-old man quit a highly successful career in charity work to take on the low-paid, dangerous job of being a police officer? When Mark Johnson left the United Way to become the oldest rookie in the Mobile, Alabama, police department, he didn’t just have to adjust to a new career―he had to adjust to an entirely new life of danger, violence, and stark moral choices. Apprehensions and Convictions is Johnson’s explosive memoir of his second career as a cop. Going from fund-...