Wessel Ebersohn’s nineteenth rule of thriller writing

What about the police? Good solid conservative thriller writers have heroic police officers. This is fine, because most often the police are, in fact, on the side of the angels. But if you make them too good that is going to read like the nonsense it is. They occupy a rough world and their clients are not choir boys. To survive they have to learn to deal with violent and unpredictable people. They too have to learn to be violent. You will have to show that.

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