Books by Edward Conlon and Complete Book Reviews
Edward Conlon, Author . Riverhead $26.95 (562p) ISBN 978-1-57322-266-2
This gripping account of his life in the NYPD by a Harvard-educated detective will evoke deserved comparisons to other true crime classics, like David Simon's Homicide
and Kurt Eichenwald's The Informant
. The son of an FBI agent, Conlon...
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Edward Conlon, Random/Spiegel & Grau, $26 (464p) ISBN 978-0-385-51917-5
NYPD detective Conlon, author of the memoir Blue Blood, turns to fiction with this ambitious, sprawling epic of police life. Nick Meehan, a New York City detective slipping into mid-career burnout, takes a special case for Internal Affairs to...
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Edward Conlon, read by Mark Deakins. Random House Audio, unabridged, 14 CDs, 17 hrs., $45 ISBN 978-0-307-87609-6
Talk about a policeman's lot not being a happy one. NYPD detective Nick Mehan, the protagonist of NYPD detective Conlon's debut novel, is repressed and depressed and, thanks to his situation, not likely to be in for a mood change. In order to get...
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