`superb. The most stunning memoir ever written about the cop world`
- Joseph Wambaugh. ` Beautiful & inspiring, terrifying & 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 & his ascent to gold shield detective. Conlon is the product of generations involved in law enforcement, good cops & bad, & he paints a vivid portrait of the teeming street life of the city, in all its horror & splendour. It`s all here: adrenaline-fuelled chases, toxic police politics, crackhead informants & police camaraderie. The pace is relentless, the stories hypnotic, the scope nothing less than monumental.