Blue
A Memoir – Keeping the Peace and Falling to Pieces
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4.7 • 3 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
A Sunday Times top-five bestseller
'This is a remarkable book . . . profound and deeply moving . . . It has as much to tell us about mental illness as it does about policing' Alastair Stewart
John Sutherland joined the Met in 1992, having dreamed of being a police officer since his teens. Rising quickly through the ranks, he experienced all that is extraordinary about a life in blue: saving lives, finding the lost, comforting the broken and helping to take dangerous people off the streets. But for every case with a happy ending, there were others that ended in desperate sadness, and in 2013 John suffered a major breakdown.
Blue is his memoir of crime and calamity, of adventure and achievement, of friendship and failure, of serious illness and slow recovery. With searing honesty, it offers an immensely moving and personal insight into what it is to be a police officer in Britain today.
Customer Reviews
There it is all laid bare.
A great book for anyone who has wondered what the police do. Who want to compare their stories with the authors and for the large number who have worked with him to see if they made the book.
Just as important a book for all in the company of the black dog, in denial of the presence of their depression as well as for the partners of officers who see and do extraordinary things but never talk about it.
A book that works at so many levels. A great book and well worth reading.