Edward Conlon
Edward W. Conlon | |
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| Born | 1965 (age 58–59) |
| Alma mater | NYPD |
| Service years | 1995 - 2011 |
| Status | Retired |
| Rank | Detective |
| Other work | author |
| Website | http://www.edwardconlon.com |
Edward W. Conlon (born 1965) is an American
Biography
Born in the
In 1995 Conlon joined the New York Police Department.[2] Conlon's police experience focused on patrolling city-owned public housing developments, as well as arresting street-level drug dealers after observing their sales from surveillance posts. In 2002, he was promoted to the rank of detective and was assigned to the Bronx's 44th Precinct. He retired as a Detective Second Grade in 2011 after 16 years with the department.[3]
He is currently working with the NYPD communications office.[4] From there he also hosts a true crime podcast interviewing NYPD officers about past cases.[5] As of 2022, he narrates a podcast titled “Talk to Me” about the history of hostage negotiation.
Works
After college Conlon wrote a novel which remains unsubmitted and unpublished. His first published article for
Blue Blood
The column resulted in a nearly $1 million advance for Blue Blood (2004),[2] which covers Conlon's years in the NYPD, his work conducting street-level narcotics enforcement in the Housing Bureau, his family's law enforcement background, and various anecdotes about the history of policing. The book received a favorable review on the cover of The New York Times Book Review, debuted at #9 on the Times Best Seller list, and remained on the list for two weeks.[citation needed]
Red on Red
Conlon turned to fiction with this novel of police life that strays from actual NYPD investigative practice. Nick Meehan, a New York City detective slipping into mid-career burnout, is assigned 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 writing about crime, Conlon's book examines the personal lives of his two main characters, the 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 novel was targeted to appeal to readers of literary crime writers such as George Pelecanos, Dennis Lehane, and Richard Price.
Bibliography
- Blue Blood (New York: Riverhead, 2004) ISBN 1-59448-073-7
- Red on Red (New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2011) ISBN 978-0-385-51917-5
- How to Be an NYPD Drugs Cop: Lives Less Ordinary (United Kingdom: Ebury Publishing, 2011) ISBN 978-1-446-49036-5
- The Policewomen's Bureau: A Novel (United States: Skyhorse Publishing, 2019) ISBN 978-1-948-92408-5
References
- ^ Iverac, Mirela (April 11, 2011). "Still on the Beat, A Former South Bronx Detective Pens Crime Novel". WNYC News. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
- ^ a b c Porter Brown, Nell. "NYPD Crimson". Harvard Magazine, January–February 2005.
- ^ Goldstein, Joseph; Baker, Al (21 July 2011). "A Writing Detective Retires to Focus on Books". The New York Times.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
- ^ "NYP(o)D: NYC cops roll out their own podcast, with narratives recounted by the actual police investigators". New York Daily News. 30 November 2019. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
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