Gray Shades of Blue [Paperback]

Philip V. Bulone (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 232 pages
• Publisher: 1st Book Library (January 7, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1414025270
• ISBN-13: 978-1414025278
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,515,819 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Truth and Nothing But the Truth, January 24, 2006

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This review is from: Gray Shades of Blue (Paperback)

Gray Shades of Blue is entertaining, insightful, and educational. The author, Philip Bulone, is a former NYC cop and a natural storyteller. His talent as a raconteur builds as he takes the reader on a journey from the streets of Brooklyn in the 1960s, to jungles of Vietnam and back to NYC in the midst of a fiscal and social crisis that lasted well into the 1980s. It is with a delicate sense of irony that the author describes the reality of police work in the mean streets of the city where the ideal is compromised because the world is a place with relative degrees of good and evil. This book is a must read for a generation of indulged, protected and coddled young adults that grew up in the fantasy world of the suburban dream. The book depicts life as it is and not as it should be, and the reader is led to understand that you define yourself ultimately by how you respond to events.