Praise For “I Got A Monster”

“A sobering and unflinching story of corruption, a city plagued by poor leadership, and a citizenry that has always deserved better....A reminder that corruption is the result of people making choices to benefit themselves at the expenses of the general public. It is an important and necessary read.” -DeRay McKesson, author of On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope

"Riveting, propulsive, and illuminating. Woods and Soderberg take readers deep inside the world of police corruption. With exhaustive reporting, trenchant analysis, and lyrical storytelling, this is literary journalism at its best." -Wil S. Hylton, author of Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II

“This book made me want to cry and scream at the same time.”-NPR (Best Books of 2020)

“True crime with humanity at its core”-Booklist

“In a year full of critical reflections on the role that police power plays in society, nothing informed my thinking quite as dramatically as this book.”-Mother Jones

“I Got A Monster reads like Bad Lieutenant on steroids.”-Crimereads (Best True Crime Books of 2020)

“Although I Got A Monster is meticulously reported nonfiction, the writing is good enough to generate a train wreck fascination in watching Jenkins’s schemes start to spiral out of control. But amid a nationwide debate over policing reform, it’s more than just an outrageous crime story. Woods and Soderberg shows the bureaucratic and political incentives that allowed dirty cops to flourish.”-Reason