A Quietly Remarkable Memoir Walks a Beat From H.U. to NYPD

Blue

Blood , by Edward Conlon.

Riverhead, 562 pages, $26.95.

The

notable first-person genres of the past 10 years or so-spoiled-child memoir,

abuse memoir, depression memoir (did I mention spoiled-child memoir?)-attest to

a world in which high literacy and genuine hardship no longer go together quite

as commonly as they once did. War once Read More