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(More customer reviews)"Hotel Dick" by Steve Peacock is a rare glimpse at the behind the scenes workings of a prestigious hotel. Written in a witty journalistic, yet literary style, Peacock objectively relays some of his experiences working as a plain clothes security officer while interjecting with didactic quips showing his strong sense of morality and virtue. Steve Peacock takes his position as a hotel dick in a refreshing manner, doing his job properly, treating even the lowliest of people with respect, while toiling over the moral repercussions of the actions he takes, always battling his capitalist needs and sense of humanity. "Hotel Dick" is definitely an entertaining and edifying read, showing the absurd and desperate psyches he encounters as a silent and usually overlooked participant of society. At the end of "Hotel Dick" Steve Peacock leaves me wanting to read more....
~John J. Petrolino III: May 20, 2008
Author of Galleria: A collection of poetry and the short story "Three Lonesome Travelers"
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As an undercover house officer of the Helmsley Palace, Steve Peacock had taken a unique five-year peek into the lives of the wealthy, the powerful and the “lower” classes that serviced their every desire. This experience was a rare chance to immerse him in the subculture of the privileged. But more importantly, it was an occasion to witness the underbelly of greed and gluttony existing side-by-side with despair.Peacock watched carefully and quietly as the pampered Palace guests spent vast sums of money on decadent pleasures. Likewise, he served as a buffer between the so-called elite and the hookers, thieves and street people who were drawn to this glass-and-steel luxury tower. Hotel Dick: Harlots, Starlets, Thieves & Sleaze reveals what went on behind the closed doors of New York City’s former playground of the rich and famous. The story of the rise and fall of Harry and Leona Helmsley has already been told; however, Hotel Dick is the first book to provide a secret window into the lives of the other bizarre and lust-filled personalities who roamed this notorious Manhattan landmark.
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