True Blue: To Protect and Serve
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Lieutenant Randy Sutton's fascinating collection of stories and memories, solicited from law enforcement officers across the country, offers a broad and insightful look at the many facets of police life: courage, exhilaration, frustration, loss, and even humor, from the everyday to the career-defining moments on the job. Told by the cops that lived them, these stories show what it truly means to protect and serve.
Readers will come to recognize the faces behind the badge, as they witness officers charge into the unknown on The Beat, honor and mourn friends in The Fallen, hear the War Stories spread in police locker rooms and bars, discover the unbreakable line between civilian and cop in the Line of Duty, and feel the blood-boiling adrenaline during those life-altering moments when a cop must use Deadly Force. TRUE BLUE: To Protect and Serve is a funny, exciting, haunting compilation of true stories written by active and retired police officers, most of whom have never written before, alongside published officers from all over the United States.
A portion of the royalties for this book will be donated to The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This compulsively readable anthology of true-life, first person stories proves once again that cops have fascinating tales to tell. The pieces span the range of police experience, from light-hearted reminiscences--a cop pretends to use his radar gun to exterminate the space aliens lurking in a crazy man's attic--to tearful eulogies to partners killed in the line of duty. Most of the staple scenarios of police drama are represented, including interrogation tricks that get criminals to confess, harrowing drive-bys, hostage situations, bloody double-murder crime scenes, child-abduction man-hunts, predators who molest children but beat the system, and even a sirens-blaring escort to the hospital for a woman in labor. The contributing cops are mostly amateur writers, and their style ranges from just-the-facts-ma'am procedural to overwrought noir ("winos, junkies, lizard-eyed pimps and their sweating whores lolled in doorways, waiting for the parade of street carrion that brought the next trick and the next high"). The deftly edited narratives are fast-paced and pithy, but the most affecting stories are the quieter ones--a man hit by a bus, a senile woman distraught over her husband's death, a quadriplegic trying to get help for his brother's seizures--in which cops contemplate humanity in extremis.
