Blue Blood  ..Edward Conlon
{Abandoned}

I just can’t go on in this book. Of the 559 pages I made it 270, ending chapter 7. I figure just under 50% is a good effort. Nearly everyday I complained to my husband that the first hand stories are wonderful and I would love to read only that, but they are mixed into page upon page of historical drone. There was an entire chapter on his family and their roles in the police and FBI world. The problem is the writing is so scattered that I frequently lost track of who was who and in the end still couldn’t see the link between their services on the force and his. In fact, he point blank says he never wanted to be a police officer and would have rather been a writer. Unfortunately, I think it was best he found police work because it seems he was much better at it than he is as a writer. Like I said, if someone came along and edited this book down to about a third of the original and only kept the personal stories and encounters on the streets, it would be a great book. You have to get rid of all the other crap.