
Blue Blood
Edward Conlon
#1326 of 3,809 books · #466 in Biography & Memoir
Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (2004) and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest (2004).
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.
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing
- ISBN-13
- 9780965446969
- Genre
- 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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