Review: Almost too real!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 26, 2012
This was so obviously a cop book written by a cop.  I grew up with this stuff (dad & uncle wore the Blue)and still live with it (2 brothers in Blue)and as much as I have heard all my life, this took it all a step further.Cops are a unique breed and this author totally takes on that uniqueness and delivers.  The weird sense of humor, the need for justice, and the constant fear of leaving those you love too soon because of what you chose to do for a living.  He also explores the deep sense of fear for their own families that cops carry with them.  As a teen and young adult I so did not get that what my dad feared most and the reason he seemed over protective was of all he had seen on the Job and his fear that one of his own kids might become one of those victims he saw every day.  There is a reason cops keep so much inside, if they didn't they'd never survive.Anyway, this book.  Great characters.  Totally loved Vic and Frank.  I did not see the ending coming and I have to say it hit me hard.  I will read it again sometime, but knowing how it turns out for these characters will make it a bittersweet read.