Uncle Janice, by Matt Burgess

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Uncle Janice, by Matt Burgess

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Twenty-four-year-old Janice Itwaru is an “uncle”—NYPD lingo for an undercover narcotics officer—and the heroine of the most exuberantand original cop novel in years.A New York City cop who can last eighteen months in Narcotics, without getting killed or demoted first, will automatically get promoted to detective. Undercover narc Janice Itwaru is at month seventeen. Ambitious, desperate for that promotion, she hits the sidewalks of Queens in her secondhand hoochie clothes, hoping to convince potential criminals—drug dealers, addicts, dummies, whomever—to commit a felony on her behalf. And things aren’t any easier back at the narco office, where she has to keep up with the bantering lies and inventively cruel pranks of her fellow uncles while coping with the ridiculous demands of her NYPD bosses.     With an ailing mother at home, her cover nearly blown, quota pressures from her superiors, and rumors circulating that Internal Affairs has her unit under surveillance, Janice is running terribly short on luck as her promotion deadline approaches. Now she has to decide which evil to confront: the absurd bureaucrats at One Police Plaza, or the violent drug dealers who may already be on to her identity.     Bursting with the glorious chaos of the New York City streets, Uncle Janice is both a deeply funny portrait of how undercover cops really talk and act, and a compelling story of their crazy, dangerous, and complicated lives.From the Hardcover edition.

Uncle Janice, by Matt Burgess

• Amazon Sales Rank: #997076 in Books
• Published on: 2015-11-24
• Released on: 2015-11-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.10" h x .60" w x 5.20" l, .81 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful. The girl from 'Uncle' By L. Burns It's early 2008 and 24 year old Janice Itwaru is working as an undercover narcotics officer (aka "Uncle") in Queens. Desperate to get that gold shield - and avoid being busted back down to patrol - Janice needs to make four more "buys". The only question is...at what cost?Many years ago, early in my husband's career, he did a (blessedly) brief stint in undercover narcotics so I have some notion of what the job entails. I have an even better idea of what it feels like to know that your loved one is out there doing an unpredictable and dangerous job. To me, this story felt authentic and I think the author nailed it when it came to characterization and dialog.Janice is a fully realized, three dimensional character. She's street smart and ballsy; she makes poor decisions; is a tad self-destructive and shoulders a lot more responsibility than the average 24 year old. I found her relatable and sympathetic. It was interesting watching her grapple with some moral choices and come to terms with the fact that lofty ideals often become disposable when put to the "real world" test. Great, nuanced character - she made the book for me.In the cover blurb for the book it's described as "uproariously funny". It isn't. There's clever humor (often of the dark variety) and some amusing and spot-on social commentary, but it would be a mistake to go into this expecting a laugh-a-minute. At its core, this is a simple "slice of life" story, a couple of months in the life of a young cop who is just trying to get ahead in a system where the rules are constantly shifting.Oh, and I would be remiss if I didn't mention how much Queens figures into this story. This city is a character in its own right, sharply depicted right down to the smallest detail.Would I recommend this? Sure, if you're looking for a well-written character study that offers a peek into the world of an "Uncle". If you prefer your cop dramas more stylized or action-packed, this might not be for you. This is first and foremost Janice's story.Frequent strong language; no sexual content

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Not quite Clockers but overflowling with attitude (4.5 stars) By TChris Uncle Janice has been favorably compared to Clockers, at least by blurb writers. While Clockers is a better novel, I understand the comparison. The subject matter is similar, although Uncle Janice eventually travels in a different direction. More importantly, both books are overflowing with attitude. The dialog is often hilarious but it always rings true. The characters are multifaceted (although, unlike Clockers, the focus in Uncle Janice is almost exclusively on the cops rather than the dealers). The prose is vigorous and smart.Undercover narcs in NYPD call themselves uncles. Janice Itwaru has been an uncle for 17 months but the drug buys she has been able to make are on a "downward slope," a trend that does not endear her to a supervisor who is all about numbers. Janice attributes her decline in productivity to all the arrests that are made immediately after she makes a buy, exposing her undercover identity to the seller and eventually to the neighborhood. She is a month away from promotion to detective unless her declining statistics are used as an excuse to send her back where she started, wearing a uniform on patrol. Arrest quotas are illegal but Janice clearly needs to meet her quota. To do that, she may need to poach buys that should be made by other uncles. She may also need to charm young men into committing crimes that they never would never have committed without her persuasion. In that sense, Uncle Janice is a more realistic and insightful look at undercover drug cops than the heroic images that are served up on television.Readers who do not like a book unless they like the protagonist may find little value here. Janice sees her undercover work as a stepping stone to a higher rank and a better life. Janice is not particularly admirable but neither is her job, which is based on using deceit to make pointless arrests. She behaves badly and protects her career by covering up her misconduct. I think that makes her realistic but others might find it difficult to warm up to her character. On the other hand, the time Janice spends dealing with her mother's dementia is a source of sympathy.While Janice is far from perfect, she recognizes her failings. The novel gets its weight from a moral dilemma Janice faces when her failings force her to decide whether she will use the same tactics against dishonest cops that she employs to harass low-level drug dealers. Her resolution of that dilemma is clever if abrupt.I admired the Matt Burgess' writing style here as much as I did in Dogfight, A Love Story, another novel that reminded me of Clockers. Even if Uncle Janice doesn't quite reach the admirable heights of Clockers (or, for that matter, Dogfight), I enjoyed it. If I could, I would give Uncle Janice 4 1/2 stars.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. The NYC borough of Queens is the real star here By S. McGee For Janice Itwaru, it's up or out at the narcotics squad. Officially, quotas aren't allowed, but then mysteriously, a "buy board" appears in her squad room, tracking how the various undercovers, aka "Uncles", are doing in nailing drug dealers by convincing them to sell them them drugs -- and then nailing them for drug offenses. If she can make four more buys, she'll complete her 18-month tryout stint in narcotics and earn her gold shield as a detective. If not, it will be back to walking the beat. Janice, as a woman and a minority (Indo-Guyanese) has zero interest in the latter fate, but sees her statistics declining: her face is becoming too familiar on the streets to dealers. But is the real obstacle to her promotion going to come from without, in the form of the increasingly elusive drug busts, or from within, as she deals with fellow cops who are corrupt, lazy or just prone to harassment.Janice has all kinds of reasons for wanting to be a cop, as the author lets us know in the midst of one of the many fraught situations in which she finds herself in pursuit of a "buy". She figured out endings to mystery movies in record time, wanted a good city job, didn't like bullies and was once called a racial slur by two white cops. "Perhaps most important, she always, no matter what, took a definitive stance in arguments, especialy ones that had nothing to do with her."Alas: for this reader, while Burgess's writing (as the above hints at is excellent) Janice's character isn't always as clear cut or as interesting as this would suggest. She makes smart decisions and then dumb ones, and doesn't seem to understand the difference between them. She doesn't handle harassment in a convincing way (or even in a way that might encourage her bosses to treat her as a serious, responsible human being, able to take a joke and move on). And then, out on the street, she can handle tough situations without batting an eyelash. I never got a coherent sense of who Janice was, other than a way for Burgess (who's a white male) to find a way to make his story a bit edgier.The Rumpus Room that Janice must try to navigate just as she does the streets is more convincingly portrayed, as are her male colleagues, but the real star of the show is Burgess's portrayal of Queens itself -- a part of New York that is always teetering on the edge of being "discovered" by Manhattanites and Brooklynites fleeing sky-high rents and yet that retains its gritty edge and that hasn't succumbed (except in a few pockets) to mass gentrification. Burgess does an absolutely fabulous job of depicting the bodegas, the cheap nightclubs, the alleyways and the brick apartment blocks, and the outdoor basketball courts where guys congregate for pickup games. It's those word pictures that Burgess paints, together with his general knack for words, that kept me reading throughout a story that I ended up caring very little about as a plot, revolving around a character that I didn't find terribly convincing or even interesting, in spite of her dramatic experiences. It's not that I dislike unsympathetic characters (often, they are the most interesting ones to follow throughout a novel); it's simply that the author has to convince me that somewhere out there, a real Janice Itwaru (or whoever it is) exists. In this case, that failed completely. Which left this as a novel with a hole in the middle where its heart -- its principal character -- should be.

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