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Title: The Setup: A True Story of Dirty Cops, Soccer Moms, and Reality TV



Author: Pete Crooks (Joe Kenda - foreword)



Category: Audiobook



Narrated By: Keith Sellon-Wright



Duration: 09:59:26



Source: Audible



Type: MP3



Size: 325 MB



Bitrate: 48 Kb/s







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The pitch went like this: Chris Butler, a retired cop, ran a private investigator

firm in Concord, California. His business had a fascinating angle - his firm was

staffed entirely by soccer moms.  



In fact, Butler employed PI Super Moms: attractive, organized, smart, and trained in

investigative techniques, self-defense, and weaponry. This American Life host Ira

Glass described them as "MILF: Charlie's Angels."  



When this story came across Pete Crooks's desk when he was working at Diablo magazine

in 2010, he was instantly hooked. He'd heard a little bit about Butler and his super

moms in the news; they'd been featured in People magazine and on Dr. Phil. What

Butler's publicist was offering was too tantalizing to pass up: an opportunity to

ride along with Butler and a few of his sexy PIs as they prepared to start filming a

reality TV show.  



But after the ride-along-and after he started receiving mysterious emails from one of

Butler's employees - Crooks started to realize something didn't seem right. After

doing a little digging, he discovered the "sting" he'd seen only had one real victim

...him. The PI bust had been a setup.  



Crooks wasn't a hard-boiled crime reporter. He did lifestyle pieces for a regional

magazine. The more he learned about Butler's operation, the more he realized he was

in far over his head. But swallowing his fears, he decided he was going to write an

expose on Butler and his entire organization. He soon found himself deep in the

underbelly of fake sting operations, wannabe celebrities, police corruption,

drug-dealing, reality television, double-crossing employees, and more twists and

turns than a dozen crime thrillers.



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