I heard New York Police Detective Ed Conlon speak at the Philadelphia Free Library a while back when he was promoting Blue Blood, his memoir of his first seven years on the NYPD, and I spoke to him briefly.Conlon (seen in the above LIFE photo) appeared with the legendary former FBI special agent Joe Pistone, who spent six years undercover with the New York Bonanno Cosa Nostra organized crime family. Pistone wrote about his experiences in Donnie Brasco, and Johnny Depp later portrayed Pistone in the film Donnie Brasco.
Conlon has now written a novel called Red On Red and he was interviewed about the novel by Steven Kurutz at The Wall Street Journal.
You can read the piece via the below link:
http://topics.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748703858404576214680863055522.html
You can also read about Conlon's take on police fiction via the below link:
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/03/22/an-nypd-detectives-take-on-police-fiction/
I thought Blood Blood was interesting and I look forward to reading Red On Red.
