"FROZEN SHIELD"

Crime...treachery...cover-up...danger

Newly-appointed police chief, Nick Mangieri was a man with a mission. A daunting task awaited him in the remote Alaskan town that would now be his home. Expected to rejuvenate the small police agency, he soon discovered that his staff's morale was low and departmental organization was as precarious as the arctic winds. With a savvy blend of skill and experience, he restructured the agency, implemented changes that garnered the respect and admiration of his Law Enforcement peers. And when his department became an effective, viable community force, Nick anticipated a satisfying career, one in which his department would become a standard for other police agencies.

But the local politicians had other ideas, Nick discovered that the city fathers were enmeshed in a labyrinth of crime and treachery. Crooked judges, illegal land deals and car-bombings were only some of the challenges he faced, laws broken by the lawmakers. Like Diogenes' quest for an honest man, Nick struggled to find justice. This saga spans a four-year struggle to find that justice at great personal expense - the loss of his marriage, his family and nearly his life. With painstaking precision, Nick provides an unflinching look at people, the system and the failed justice he vowed would prevail.

"Nick Mangieri rally knows how to tell a story. Frozen Shield comes at you like an arctic blast. Mangieri weaves action and deception, both political and legal, in this fascinating account of a beleaguered lawman who refuses to be buried by a system as old and dangerous as the barren, icy landscape."

-Ed Dee, ret NYPD Lt., Author of Little Boy Blue and Nightbird

"Frozen Shield, a well-researched expose', is a story of the worst practices of small-town America of the past. Told from an experienced, righteous cop's point of view, the reader learns how Alaskan politicians lined their pockets with impunity, using innovative means and schemes that would have made any Tammany Hall politico proud. As the police chief in one of those towns, Nick Mangieri fought the system, doggedly battled the politicians, exposed their misdeeds and still lost. Frozen Shield is a sobering chronicle on what's wrong in the Far North."

-Dan Mahoney, ret NYPD Capt., Author of Black & White and Edge of the City