The Night is Mine is David Hunter's journey through the world of a street cop, with all its joy and anguish, satisfaction and frustration. He introduces readers to officers who weep in sorrow and shout in jubilation, who save lives of some and helplessly watch others slip away, who behave like heroes under fire and yet prank one another like youngsters to relieve the stress. Here also are the unforgettable characters: the incompetent beer-box bandit who made a wrong turn during a getaway and was arrested in front of the market he had just robbed, the father who made his family swelter in the summer heat but kept his own room air-conditioned, the lonely old alcoholic who taught Hunter to believe in Santa Claus, the Vietnam vet whose nightmares haunted him to a premature death, the abused woman who protected her live-in boyfriend from the police even though he beat her children, the Anointed of God on a mission no one else could understand. They're all here. The Night Is Mine is a positive, heart-warming, and occasionally heart-wrenching look at life on the streets. It is a world all police officers know intimately, one that is not easily forgotten.