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The Force 30%

Liking it more, though the cynicism seems forced to me.  Black humor about shooting corpses how pop back to life. Dead cop who took viagra just before a heart attack at a brothel and has an erection when his wife identifies the body.  She's happy to know he went out a tiger.  That sort of thing.

Malone gets a new member of the team. Levin. They quickly initiate him. He goes from boy scout to implicated in a series of "dirty cop" escapades in one day.

Good passages on what it means to be black in America.

The mystery is:  how does Malone end up in jail.

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