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Mop Men: Inside the World of Crime Scene Cleaners ReviewThis is truly a "dirty job" that no one thinks about, and for good reason... Mop Men: Inside the World of Crime Scene Cleaners by Alan Emmins. Emmins leaves his home in Denmark and travels to San Francisco to follow Neal Smither on his rounds. Smither is the president of "Crime Scene Cleaners", a company that comes in when someone has died and cleans up afterwards. While you often read about grisly deaths in the paper or see them on TV, you really don't think about what happens after the crime tape comes down and the room needs to be returned to a usable state. That's the world that Emmins writes about in graphic detail.
Smither is an interesting character, someone who sees death as his path to financial independence. He's crude, aggressive, and doesn't flinch at much of anything. He has no problems walking into a room where someone has committed suicide via rifle to the head, making a rather crass comment about the mess, negotiating a price to clean it all up, and then digging in. But as gruesome and revolting as it may be, he's fanatical about making sure *no* remaining traces of body fluids or parts are left behind to be discovered weeks later by others. Emmins undergoes a transformation during his month-long stint as a crime scene cleaner. He starts with the reactions that you'd expect... nausea, dry heaves, bizarre dreams. By the end of his trip, he's diving into cleanup operations like a pro, more irritated at the mess than grossed out by what happened. He also has to come to grips with the feelings of wishing someone would die so he'd have more material for his book, realizing that he's become somewhat jaded by the experience.
In terms of being exposed to a hidden world, Mop Men was OK. But it's less of a technical read than an exploration into what drives people who deal with death on a daily basis, as well as a large side trip into one particular murder crime scene involving a person living in an apartment with a dead body that was decomposing for about a month in the bathtub. He goes into the cleanup a bit, but he also tracks the investigation and trial of the person accused of the crime. I felt that part of the book strayed somewhat from the main subject, and as such had me skimming a bit to get back to the main story.
Mop Men is a very different read, and not one to start if you are at all squeamish. You probably won't look at news stories involving dead bodies quite the same way again, either...
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