Edward Conlon
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Edward Conlon
- 2005 Anthony-Critical nominee
- 2004 LATimes–Current Interest finalist
- 2004 NBCC–Nonfiction finalist
- Score: 18.55
The life of a New York City police officer, with the NYPD running through his veins: a highly anticipated nonfiction epic—destined to be a classic.
Blue Blood is an important book about what it means to protect, to serve, and to defend among the ranks of New York’s finest. Conlon’s canvas is great and complicated—he is fourth generation NYPD—and the story he tells is impossibly rich: it presents an anecdotal history of New York through its police force, and depicts a vivid portrait of the teeming street life of the city in all its horror and splendor.…
