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McNamara, Joseph D

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McNamara, Joseph D (1934– )

US police chief, detective writer, and research fellow. Known for his best-selling detective novels, he spent 35 years in active law enforcement, which included serving as police chief of Kansas City, Missouri (1973–76), and police chief of San Jose, California (1976–91). He was a criminal justice fellow at Harvard Law School (from 1969) and was named a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in 1991. In addition to detective thrillers such as Fatal Command, he was the author of Safe and Sane, a crime prevention textbook, among several other non-fiction works, and numerous articles. McNamara was born in New York City.



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