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Spiegel and Grau
April 2011
On Sale: April 5, 2011
464 pages ISBN: 0385519176 EAN: 9780385519175 Hardcover
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Fiction Family Life
From the author of the celebrated and bestselling memoir
Blue Blood (“May be the best account ever written of life
behind the badge.” —Time) comes this highly anticipated
fiction debut. In Red on Red, Edward Conlon tells the story
of two NYPD detectives, Meehan and Esposito: one damaged and
introspective, the other ambitious and unscrupulous. Meehan
is compelled by haunting and elusive stories that defy easy
resolution, while Esposito is drawn to cases of rough and
ordinary combat. A fierce and unlikely friendship develops
between them and plays out against a tangle of mysteries: a
lonely immigrant who hangs herself in Inwood Hill Park, a
serial rapist preying on upper Manhattan, a troubled
Catholic schoolgirl who appears in the wrong place with
uncanny regularity, and a savage gang war that erupts over a
case of mistaken identity. Red on Red captures the vibrant dynamic of a successful
police partnership—the tests of loyalty, the necessary
betrayals, the wedding of life and work—and tells an
unrelenting and exciting story that captures the grittiness,
complexity, ironies, and compromises of life on the job.
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