Blue Blood
Edward Conlon
A portrait of life as a police officer in the NYPD chronicles the author's life as a cop, from growing up with a police officer father, to his first day on the beat in the South Bronx and to his rise to detective.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing
- Year
- 2004
- ISBN-13
- 9780965446969
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- Police workNYPDLaw enforcement career
Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current InterestShortlisted(2004)
- National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(2004)
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