Tough Cop

The crooks, the grafters, all of New York''s underworld kept telling themselves that they never had it so good as they would now, with Johnny Devereaux retiring from the force after 21 years. Devereaux was a tough cop, tough to encounter and impossible to bluff.

Devereaux was doing a little chortling of his own. He was still young enough to enjoy life; he wanted to read some books, take a little tr...