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A Year Inside the Nation's Most Exclusive Police Unit
Hyperion
March 2007
On Sale: March 6, 2007
352 pages
ISBN: 1401301525
EAN: 9781401301521
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
An unprecedented
behind-the-scenes look at the men who protect us from the most
frightening prospect of life in the age of terrorism
"In my
mind it’s all business; I don’t worry about my family, I
don’t worry
about a function that I’m doing after work, I just worry
about what’s
at hand. And what’s at hand is that package." --Detective
First Grade
Joe Putkowski, NYPD Bomb Squad The New York City
Police
Department Bomb Squad is the oldest such squad in the
nation, founded
in 1903. Each year its thirty-three members make more than
two hundred
stress-filled "bomb runs," in which they check suspicious
briefcases,
defuse hand grenades, and even respond to "art" projects
constructed
with real explosives. The public rarely sees these men --
and when they
do, it’s usually from a distance, telephoto pictures of helmeted
figures in ninety-pound suits of Kevlar armor.
Starting on
December 31, 2003, in the heart of the New Year’s Eve action
in Times
Square, journalists Richard Esposito and Ted Gerstein had
exclusive
access to the nation’s most elite police unit for an entire
year. Their
often chilling, never-before-told tales from the front line
provide an
extraordinary view of the domestic war on terrorism.
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