Bravo to Detective Conlon. This is an honest book and beautifully written. Those that are expecting a typical cop book or your run of the mill true crime, will be disappointed and perhaps those are the folks giving the negative reviews. This book is written like prose and is gorgeous to read. It's not a fast read, but rather meant to be digested and paid attention to. I look forward to seeing what Conlon writes next.
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When I heard that author Edward Conlon still serves in the NYPD, I was skeptical about whether he was really free to publish a truly candid account of life inside one of the nation's largest police departments. Yet, Detective Conlon does just that and more in a remarkably frank, funny, thoughtful and brilliantly written memoir. Blue Blood stands out primarily because of Detective Conlon's sharp wit and humor. His vivid descriptions...
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BLUE BLOOD is an absorbing first-person account of Edward Conlon's time in the NYPD that takes us far beyond "Third Watch" and "NYPD Blue." Conlon touches on the family roots and influences that impelled him to become a policeman after graduating from Harvard -- the uncles and cousins in "the Job," and particularly his father, a career FBI agent -- and on embarrassing moments in youthful misdemeanor and on the streets of the...
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I am a New York City Police Department sergeant with a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Dartmouth College and a master's from Harvard University. I attended Stuyvesant High School in New York City prior to college. You could imagine that the release of this book was intrigued me, and I bought it to see how Ed Conlon's experiences compared to mine.Having worked in many of Brooklyn's busiest areas since 1997 (East Flatbush,...
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Ed Conlon's "Blue Blood" is a masterpiece: a gritty, no-nonsense look at law enforcement in New York City, with prose that rises far above the standard police tell-all. Part memoir, part expose, this book grabs your attention, and holds it while Conlon takes you through the criminal justice system of New York, all the while pointing out its absurdity and promise. Although it's a deeply personal book, Conlon's observations...
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