A Piece of the Action

In 1957, a young cop boxes his way to a gold shield, and finds corruption everywhere he turns

Before he became one of the most feared detectives in the New York Police Department, Stanley Moodrow was a boxer. A big kid with sledgehammer fists and a body that didn't know when to quit, he won his first twenty bouts handily, and might have gone pro if he saw a future in it. But the men in Moodrow's family have always been cops, and he wanted to join their ranks.

As a young recruit, Mo...