"Cop Out" by Robert Davis: Book Review

Cop Out: How a former police officer, a flight for over 20 years - Living in the woods and other places, while avoiding the application of the law and eventually led to God and Authorities

Robert Davis

iUniverse (2007)

ISBN 9780595425433

Reviewed by Richard R. Blake for Reader Views (7:02)

"Cop Out" is the story of Robert L. Davis. Abandoned by his father, Robert lived with his maternal grandmother and eight siblings in Holly Grove, a ghettoNew Orleans area. By the time his school had to check himself and Robert steal the car naked and has always been entrenched in a life of crime. Two young neighbors, police officers in New Orleans, influenced by Robert recruits for the police academy has become.

Police corruption and the example of "bad" police force in Robert gave a false sense of its core values and an accident was being investigated by the Department of InternalAffairs. He was then arrested. While released on bail, incapable, the possibility of a sentence of 30 years the face of Angola Prison, Robert fled.

The history of bypass his authority as a fugitive, is a matter of survival. He lived for months at a time in wooded areas and National Forests. This first-person narration quickly takes Robert from New Orleans to Canada, from coast to coast.

His insights and stories of significant influences from some of the people he met in bus stations,Yard, shelters for the homeless, the missions of the church and employment centers.

I understand Robert's open and honest approach in his feelings. He is vulnerable. His story is to create questions and lead you to seek the answers. His diaries are a model of family, friends, acquaintances and friends, challenging his atheism as he filled their Christian message in question. The book is for Christians and non Christians alike stimulating.

L 'the miracle of God's redemptive reality is that the worst despicable and the perpetrators never exhaust the depth of his love: the central truth of the book. As Robert experienced the wonders of redeeming love of God, after twenty years of racing, he first gave to God and then to the authorities.

This is an extraordinary story of transformation. An angry atheist criminals was new to a man with a "compassion for the poor, love for people in need,Patience for the stupid and laughing with the innocent. "

"Cop Out" book is a must for all parties involved in considering or in the field of criminal law, faith-based ministries, judicial officers, gang members and juvenile offenders to read. Challenging, life changing, inspiring.