Blue Blood - Couverture souple

Conlon, Edward

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1594480737 ISBN 13 : 9781594480737

Editeur : Penguin Publishing Group, 2005

Synopsis

"A great book... with the testimonial force equal to that of Michael Herr's Dispatches."—Time

Edward Conlon's Blue Blood is an ambitious and extraordinary work of nonfiction about what it means to protect, to serve, and to defend among the ranks of New York's finest. Told by a fourth generation NYPD, this is an anecdotal history of New York as experienced through its police force, and depicts a portrait of the teeming street life of the city in all its horror and splendor. It is a story about police politics, fathers and sons, partners who become brothers, old ghosts and undying legacies.  Conlon joined the NYPD during the Giuliani administration, when New York City saw its crime rate plummet but also witnessed events that would alter the city, its inhabitants, and its police force forever: polarizing racial cases, the proliferation of the drug trade, and the events of September 11, 2001, and its aftermath. Conlon captures the detail of the landscape, the ironies and rhythms of natural speech, the tragic and the marvelous, firsthand, day after day. A New York Times Notable Book and Finalist for The National Book Criticics Circle Award for Nonfiction.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Edward Conlon is a detective with the NYPD. A graduate of Harvard, he has published columns in The New Yorker under the byline Marcus Laffey.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1594480737
• ISBN 13: 9781594480737
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 576
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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