Most people suppose there is a large gap between reality and fiction. For example, we feel fairly certain that the police officers we pass on the street aren’t anything like the ones we see on movie screens, or in the pages of a crime novel. But what if an actual police officer were to write a crime novel focused on the lives of cops? What kind of story would it be? Yen Yu is a graduate of Taiwan’s police academy, and his novel Cop Catcher has no shortage of realistic detail about police work. Caught between the forces of justice and corruption, between the victims and the perpetrators, and faced with the realities of an unfair class society, the main characters are appealing, interesting, and well-matched. What can a police officer do in this situation? What should they do? The answers are all contained within the pages of this novel.