Red on Red: A Novel

✍ Scribed by Conlon, Edward

• Book ID: 108940004
• Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: en-GB
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780679604419

✦ Synopsis

From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. 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 investigate a suspected dirty cop. Meehan and his new detective partner, Esposito, look into a variety of other cases, including the apparent suicide of a recently arrived Mexican immigrant woman, gangland slayings by rival drug dealers (called "red on red" or criminal on criminal killings), and a serial rapist. In between the crime solving, Conlon examines the personal lives of his two main players, the subtle alliances and loyalties, the emotional tolls, the temptations, the shades of gray inherent to police work. The pace may be slower than the average thriller, but this expertly crafted novel will appeal to readers of literary crime masters such as George Pelecanos, Dennis Lehane, and Richard Price. (Apr.)
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Review

"A first novel sure to make the bestseller lists."--_Kirkus_, starred review

"...this expertly crafted novel will appeal to readers of literary crime masters such as George Pelecanos, Dennis Lehane, and Richard Price."--_Publishers Weekly_, starred review

��Conlon��brings his full knowledge of police work to bear in this gritty chronicle..[He]�captures the herky-jerky nature of a policeman�s daily routine as it swings between farce and tragedy, all the while detailing the way cops talk, joke, and stress.� This realistic take on police work, relayed in cinematic prose, has all the earmarks of a hit.�� Booklist, starred review

�A big, daring, psychologically complex story�passionate and poignant, pulsating with authenticity and street smarts yet lyrical and literary�this is the cop novel for everyone who reads books."�Joseph Wambaugh

�_Red on Red_ is often brutal and often brutally funny, reaching into the depths of human malice and rising to the level of language that all good literature should achieve.� �Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin, winner of the National Book Award