Book description
'Superb. The most stunning memoir ever written about the cop world'
Joseph Wambaugh
'Beautiful and inspiring, terrifying and heartbreaking'
James Frey
'More chilling than even the most realistic cop dramas on TV'
People
'A great book...with the testimonial force equal to that of Michael
Herr's Dispatches' Time
Blue Blood is the fast-paced, insider story of Edward
Conlon's career in the New York Police Department. Conlon tells of his
first days as a rookie, walking a beat in the south Bronx through his
time in narcotics and his ascent to gold shield detective. Conlon is
the product of generations involved in law enforcement, good cops and
bad, and he paints a vivid portrait of the teeming street life of the
city, in all its horror and splendour. It's all here:
adrenaline-fuelled chases, toxic police politics, crackhead informants
and police camaraderie. The pace is relentless, the stories hypnotic,
the scope nothing less than monumental.
Edward Conlon is a detective with the New York City Police
Department. A graduate of Regis High School in New York and of Harvard,
he has published articles in
The New Yorker
and he lives and works in the Bronx.
