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  Blue Blood (Paperback) By (author) Edward Conlon

  

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  Short Description for Blue BloodAn insider story of the author's career in the NYPD force. Part memoir, part action, and set in the Bronx starting in the mid-1990s, it lets us follow the author's rise within the force, from rookie beat cop through a stint in the narcotics division to finally achieving gold-shield detective status.
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  • Publisher: Ebury Press
  • Published: 21 January 2010
  • Format: Paperback 576 pages
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  • Categories: Biography: General | Memoirs | Social Welfare & Social Services | Police & Security Services
  • ISBN 13: 9780091937607 ISBN 10: 0091937604
  • Sales rank: 85,526

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• '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 NYPD. Conlon can really write, but is a cop's cop through and through (the fourth generation of NYPD cop in his family). The book is part memoir, part action, set in the Bronx starting in the mid-1990s. We follow Conlon's rise within the force, from rookie beat cop through a stint in the narcotics division to finally achieving gold-shield detective status as he is today, but he also manages to portray a fascinating social history of the Bronx over the last twenty years and a history of the NYPD and its often violent evolution. The writing is gripping, with stories of shoot-outs and drug dealers interspersed with domestic disputes and runaways.