Freaky Deaky | Characters
The novel begins and ends with Chris Mankowski. More than just a police detective attempting to solve a series of crimes, he is the moral center of Freaky Deaky. A pleasant guy, committed to his career but struggling to keep a job on the force, Mankowski is portrayed in a thoroughly believable manner. In 1985, Leonard said in an interview: "My cops, I feel, are real cops .... I try to make them as real as possible. My cops cut corners a little bit, just as the real ones do."
This is not to say, however, that Mankowski is in any way tainted by corruption. He is an ordinary...
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