10-33 Go!

The radio code “10-33” is used to clear the airwaves for emergency radio traffic. “10-33 Go” is one dispatcher’s response over the frequency. “Unit with emergency traffic, go” is another. These exclamations crackling over the radio are chilling even for the most seasoned street cops.

10-33 Go!

Conversations are halted. Radio cars stop and wait for additional information. In those moments that seem like an eternity, the tension is palpable. Every second feels like a minute as you brace yourself for the next action.

Where is the emergency?

You wouldn’t want to keep driving if you happened to be going in the opposite direction of where you might need to respond.

What has happened?

Are deputies in a fight, a pursuit, or a shooting? Or is there a medical emergency, such as a baby not breathing and deputies have scooped up the child and are racing toward an emergency room?

When the deputy who declared the emergency provides a location and the nature of the emergency, the other units in the field respond, usually with lights and sirens and squealing tires.

10-33 Go! A Street Cop Novel

This is my first “street cop” novel. I’ve written and published nine detective novels, and my memoir Nothing Left to Prove, but 10-33 Go! differs significantly from the others. A detective novel features one or more crimes that the investigators are tasked with solving, whereas this patrol novel is more Wambaughesque in the sense that it is the everyday action of the street cop that drives the plot.

But I’ve had this idea for a while that I wanted to go back in time — back to the eighties and nineties when I worked as a street cop in South Central Los Angeles — and create stories about those intense days on those deadly streets. It was the era of crack cocaine, bloody gang wars, and unprecedented homicide rates. It was difficult work, exciting, dangerous, and unpredictable, and those were the best days of my career.

With this book, 10-33 Go! and more to come in the Street Cop series, the reader will either experience the real world of police work in that era or, in the case of my cop readers, be taken back to their memories, good and bad.

The Blurb

South Central Los Angeles – 1985.

Gentrification is decades away. The streets, alleys, and parks are besieged by rival gang members. They no longer fight with knives and chains but now kill each other—and many innocent bystanders—with modern and more deadly weapons: AK-47s, Mac-10s, and Uzi machine pistols. Citizens live in fear behind barred windows. Children sleep on the floor to avoid stray bullets, their mothers huddled next to them.

And the cops of Firestone station put themselves in harm’s way to make life a little bit safer for the vulnerable.

Raised on the mean streets of Compton, veteran patrol deputy Tony Delgado, along with his partner, Larry Scampton, make it their mission to find would-be cop killer Terrell “T-rock” Young, who is also responsible for the death of a little girl. When Delgado and Scampton take their trainees to the projects to hunt for him, they come under fire. Is T-rock lying in wait for them?

10-33 Go! is an action-packed, standalone street cop novel by the best-selling author of the award-winning Dickie Floyd Detective series, Danny R. Smith. If you enjoy authentic police procedurals written by someone who lived the life, you’ll love this riveting tale of tough cops and the hardcore gangsters they pursue.

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