The Good Cop: An Author Talk with Peter Steiner

Join us as Peter Steiner discusses his recently released novel, The Good Cop. This program is presented by the Ridgefield Library and Books on the Common.

Peter Steiner is perhaps best known for helping to capture the zeitgeist of the early 1990s with his famed pen-and-ink artwork of two dogs at a desk, one of them sitting before a computer screen, with the caption “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog,” which went on to become the most reproduced cartoon in New Yorker history. Now Peter turns his hand to a new novel that once again examines the zeitgeist of our times, asking: How do you uphold the law when the law goes bad?

THE GOOD COP begins in Munich, 1920. The First World War has been lost and Germany is in turmoil. The police and courts are corrupt. Fascists and Communists are fighting in the streets. People want a savior, someone who can make Germany great again. To many, Adolf Hitler seems perfect for the job. When the offices of a Munich newspaper are bombed, Detective Willi Geismeier investigates, but as it gets political, he is taken off the case. Willi continues to ask questions, but when his pursuit of the truth itself becomes a crime, his career – and his life – are in grave danger.

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