Blue
A Memoir – Keeping the Peace and Falling to Pieces
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4.8 • 69 Ratings
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- £2.99
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
Fantastic
Sir, thank you.
I really enjoyed this book and will certainly recommend to colleagues within West Yorkshire and beyond!
A must read
This book is both utterly heartbreaking & utterly honest. It is a realistic look at the police in the UK. Being an ex police officer the description of the roles and jobs rang true and brought back the harsh realities of doing “the job”
I would definitely recommend this book
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A very human insight into what it is that the men in blue face on a daily basis so that we never have to.