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Ed was born in Yonkers, N.Y. Feb. 3, 1940. He graduated
from Sacred Heart High School, then served two years in
the U.S. Army. In 1962 he joined the NYPD and spent nine
years in uniform in South Bronx precincts; the last 11 years
of his career he supervised detectives in the Organized
Crime Control Bureau. While working the streets he
earned a BA from Fordham University.
Ed retired from the NYPD as a lieutenant. Then, answering
a life-long desire to write, he left Fordham School of Law
and earned a MFA in Creative Writing from Arizona State
University.
His first novel, 14 Peck Slip, which was also his master's
thesis, was named a Notable Book of The Year in 1994 by
the New York Times. Bronx Angel ('95), Little Boy Blue
('97) and Nightbird ('99) followed.
His latest book, The Con Man's Daughter, was released in
fall 2003.
Ed has two daughters and four grandchildren. He lives in
Delaware with his wife, Nancy.
from Sacred Heart High School, then served two years in
the U.S. Army. In 1962 he joined the NYPD and spent nine
years in uniform in South Bronx precincts; the last 11 years
of his career he supervised detectives in the Organized
Crime Control Bureau. While working the streets he
earned a BA from Fordham University.
Ed retired from the NYPD as a lieutenant. Then, answering
a life-long desire to write, he left Fordham School of Law
and earned a MFA in Creative Writing from Arizona State
University.
His first novel, 14 Peck Slip, which was also his master's
thesis, was named a Notable Book of The Year in 1994 by
the New York Times. Bronx Angel ('95), Little Boy Blue
('97) and Nightbird ('99) followed.
His latest book, The Con Man's Daughter, was released in
fall 2003.
Ed has two daughters and four grandchildren. He lives in
Delaware with his wife, Nancy.
An ex-cop must solve his own daughter's kidnapping
in this grittily authentic thriller. Ex NYPD detective
Eddie Dunne must search his own past for clues when
his 35-year old daughter Kate is kidnapped from her
suburban New York home.
While the cops wait for ransom demands and hunt
down a stolen car seen leaving the driveway, Dunne
is a step ahead. He's sure that the disappearance has
to do with his previous employment as a general fixer
for Anatoly Lukin, legendary Brighton Beach crime
boss. And while Lukin was involved in non-violent
activities like Medicare fraud and gas gouging, his
chief rival, Yuri Burodenko, engineered sales of
Russian military weapons and was capable of extreme
violence.
The search turns more desperate when Dunne's
former partner's head lands on his front yard. Now
Dunne will do anything to find Burodenko, but there's
another gangster with a score to settle with Eddie..
in this grittily authentic thriller. Ex NYPD detective
Eddie Dunne must search his own past for clues when
his 35-year old daughter Kate is kidnapped from her
suburban New York home.
While the cops wait for ransom demands and hunt
down a stolen car seen leaving the driveway, Dunne
is a step ahead. He's sure that the disappearance has
to do with his previous employment as a general fixer
for Anatoly Lukin, legendary Brighton Beach crime
boss. And while Lukin was involved in non-violent
activities like Medicare fraud and gas gouging, his
chief rival, Yuri Burodenko, engineered sales of
Russian military weapons and was capable of extreme
violence.
The search turns more desperate when Dunne's
former partner's head lands on his front yard. Now
Dunne will do anything to find Burodenko, but there's
another gangster with a score to settle with Eddie..
A young actress plummets through the sky, slamming
down onto the roof of a parked car. Detectives
Anthony Ryan and Joe Gregory believe the Broadway
star's "suicide" may actually be something more
sinister. The main suspect is a big-time Broadway
producer with a shady past. But who is the mysterious
figure known only as the "Juggler" — and what
connections does he have to the dead girl?
From the back alleys of Broadway to vanishing Irish
communities of Yonkers, Ryan and Gregory work
through family secrets and tarnished reputations to
find out what really happened on that balcony. As
they discover the truth, the case becomes personal
for Ryan, bringing him dangerously close to losing
everything, in the suspenseful novel Nightbird.
down onto the roof of a parked car. Detectives
Anthony Ryan and Joe Gregory believe the Broadway
star's "suicide" may actually be something more
sinister. The main suspect is a big-time Broadway
producer with a shady past. But who is the mysterious
figure known only as the "Juggler" — and what
connections does he have to the dead girl?
From the back alleys of Broadway to vanishing Irish
communities of Yonkers, Ryan and Gregory work
through family secrets and tarnished reputations to
find out what really happened on that balcony. As
they discover the truth, the case becomes personal
for Ryan, bringing him dangerously close to losing
everything, in the suspenseful novel Nightbird.
At the center of Little Boy Blue is an airport heist gone
bad. A young baggage handler has been gunned
down. Detective Joe Gregory and his partner,
Anthony Ryan, sense something "hinky" about the
killing of young Johnny Boy Counihan, who wore an
old blue NYPD overcoat to his death. Determined to
find the killer, the two cops cast their lot with Johnny
Boy's angry, heartbroken, street-smart grandfather,
Vito Martucci, who claims to know who did the killing
and why.
Vito doesn't have all the answers. While the
detectives interview suspects, a hoods' hangout in
Queens is firebombed and another body is found in a
car trunk at the airport, this one covered with artificial
eyes. And a group of young Irish immigrants, linked to
Johnny Boy's life and death, tell Ryan and Gregory a
story that ranges from charmingly curious to darkly
disturbing.
The real killers — and the real motive — remain
hidden somewhere in the city that pays Ryan's and
Gregory's salary and confounds them, the city of their
fathers, their sins, their enemies. For the Great
Gregory, years of hard living have taken a steep
emotional toll. For Ryan, being a cop first and a
husband second is giving way to a new sense of love
for his wife and a marriage that has endured. And for
both, a partnership forged in the mad, unceasing
poetry of the street — as well as the politics of the
force — is turning to something else: a deeper
understanding and acceptance of each other's flawed
humanity.
When Gregory and Ryan finally uncover the truth
behind Johnny Boy's killing, it is a truth laced with
bitter irony, love, and innocence betrayed. Like the
character of Vito Martucci, a man of pride,
resourcefulness, and enormous heart, like the cop
bars the partners visit, like the vista of Manhattan
from the Triboro Bridge, like an unforgettable
Christmas party in Ryan's house, Little Boy Blue is a
novel that feels for its people, its place, and its time.
For here are real bonds being forged between real
men and women, between lovers and families — and
between partners doing a job that's in their blood.
bad. A young baggage handler has been gunned
down. Detective Joe Gregory and his partner,
Anthony Ryan, sense something "hinky" about the
killing of young Johnny Boy Counihan, who wore an
old blue NYPD overcoat to his death. Determined to
find the killer, the two cops cast their lot with Johnny
Boy's angry, heartbroken, street-smart grandfather,
Vito Martucci, who claims to know who did the killing
and why.
Vito doesn't have all the answers. While the
detectives interview suspects, a hoods' hangout in
Queens is firebombed and another body is found in a
car trunk at the airport, this one covered with artificial
eyes. And a group of young Irish immigrants, linked to
Johnny Boy's life and death, tell Ryan and Gregory a
story that ranges from charmingly curious to darkly
disturbing.
The real killers — and the real motive — remain
hidden somewhere in the city that pays Ryan's and
Gregory's salary and confounds them, the city of their
fathers, their sins, their enemies. For the Great
Gregory, years of hard living have taken a steep
emotional toll. For Ryan, being a cop first and a
husband second is giving way to a new sense of love
for his wife and a marriage that has endured. And for
both, a partnership forged in the mad, unceasing
poetry of the street — as well as the politics of the
force — is turning to something else: a deeper
understanding and acceptance of each other's flawed
humanity.
When Gregory and Ryan finally uncover the truth
behind Johnny Boy's killing, it is a truth laced with
bitter irony, love, and innocence betrayed. Like the
character of Vito Martucci, a man of pride,
resourcefulness, and enormous heart, like the cop
bars the partners visit, like the vista of Manhattan
from the Triboro Bridge, like an unforgettable
Christmas party in Ryan's house, Little Boy Blue is a
novel that feels for its people, its place, and its time.
For here are real bonds being forged between real
men and women, between lovers and families — and
between partners doing a job that's in their blood.
| "NYPD vet Dee is known for the authenticity of his New York City police procedurals ... and his new stand-alone thriller is no exception. ... Down and dirty crime fiction doesn't get any better than this." — Publishers Weekly |
| "Edward Dee is the real deal. Every page of Nightbirdis stamped with the authentic feel of the mean streetsand the cops who must walk them... He worksthese precincts like a haunted poet." — Michael Connelly,author of Blood Work and Angels Flight |
| "With Little Boy Blue Dee moves to the top of the list ofex-cop novelists." — New York Daily News |
| "A powerfully haunting book." — Wall Street Journal |
While New York City digs out from a freak April
snowstorm a young officer is found dead in the Bronx,
his pants pulled down around his knees, his throat
slashed. Nearby a crowd has gathered. Not to witness
the murder scene, but to see an apparition of the
Virgin Mary on an icy wall.
Anthony Ryan and his partner, the gladhanding,
flawed, and brilliant Joe Gregory, are working out of
police headquarters. In the frigid, miraculous Bronx
the death of a policeman will bring heavy heat from
the brass, who want the case closed quickly and
quietly, and from street-level cops, who want revenge.
But Ryan and Gregory have both survived too much
alcohol, too much violence, and too much
departmental politics to lose their cool.
Retracing the last hours of the dead cop's life, Ryan
and Gregory move through a world of streetwalkers
on their "strolls" and transvestites who gather at
steamy after-hours clubs. Yet every turn they take
brings the two men back to the NYPD: to a tough-
talking cop and his hard, blonde girlfriend.
Doing a job that gets in the way of a life, Ryan
decides to shake loose a nest of crooks with badges,
even as his wife packs his suitcase for a trip to
Delaware, where their daughter is getting married for
the third time. Back in New York, he and Gregory will
have to face the men they've nailed, the pain they've
caused, and the one piece of the puzzle that still
hasn't been found.
Bronx Angel is a riveting murder story and a gritty,
authentic portrait of a "cop's knowledge" — the
knowledge that tells you how to decipher a murder
scene, how to beat a traffic jam, and what lies to tell
your commanding officer or wife.
From late-night talk in cop bars to the haunting
sounds that come over a car radio, from the spectacle
of a battered homeless man who lives to fight
policemen to the fresh-faced young recruits in
sweatshirts and jeans, Bronx Angel weaves together
an unforgettable portrait of men and women on the
job — and the dangerous games that sometimes
make them heroes, sometimes make them dirty, and
sometimes get them killed.
snowstorm a young officer is found dead in the Bronx,
his pants pulled down around his knees, his throat
slashed. Nearby a crowd has gathered. Not to witness
the murder scene, but to see an apparition of the
Virgin Mary on an icy wall.
Anthony Ryan and his partner, the gladhanding,
flawed, and brilliant Joe Gregory, are working out of
police headquarters. In the frigid, miraculous Bronx
the death of a policeman will bring heavy heat from
the brass, who want the case closed quickly and
quietly, and from street-level cops, who want revenge.
But Ryan and Gregory have both survived too much
alcohol, too much violence, and too much
departmental politics to lose their cool.
Retracing the last hours of the dead cop's life, Ryan
and Gregory move through a world of streetwalkers
on their "strolls" and transvestites who gather at
steamy after-hours clubs. Yet every turn they take
brings the two men back to the NYPD: to a tough-
talking cop and his hard, blonde girlfriend.
Doing a job that gets in the way of a life, Ryan
decides to shake loose a nest of crooks with badges,
even as his wife packs his suitcase for a trip to
Delaware, where their daughter is getting married for
the third time. Back in New York, he and Gregory will
have to face the men they've nailed, the pain they've
caused, and the one piece of the puzzle that still
hasn't been found.
Bronx Angel is a riveting murder story and a gritty,
authentic portrait of a "cop's knowledge" — the
knowledge that tells you how to decipher a murder
scene, how to beat a traffic jam, and what lies to tell
your commanding officer or wife.
From late-night talk in cop bars to the haunting
sounds that come over a car radio, from the spectacle
of a battered homeless man who lives to fight
policemen to the fresh-faced young recruits in
sweatshirts and jeans, Bronx Angel weaves together
an unforgettable portrait of men and women on the
job — and the dangerous games that sometimes
make them heroes, sometimes make them dirty, and
sometimes get them killed.
| A New York Times "Notable Book of the Year" |
Not since the debut of Joseph Wambaugh has a first
novel packed the gut-wrenching punch of Ed Dee's
electrifying 14 Peck Slip. And not since Robert Daley
and William Caunitz has anyone captured the pathos,
violence, and dark humor of being a cop in New York
City. Whether it is the complex interplay between two
longtime partners, the conversation in a police bar at
closing time, or a midnight call to look down at the
body of a dead informant, Ed Dee captures a world of
law and disorder with an insider's relentless vision.
In the darkness of a December morning in lower
Manhattan's Fulton Fish Market a mob rip-off is under
way: thousands of pounds of fish are calmly "tapped"
— stolen — from wholesalers on the street. It's the
price of doing business.
But detectives Joe Gregory and Anthony Ryan have
not come to Peck Slip to stop fish tapping. They've
come to watch a fifty-gallon drum being dumped into
the East River by a mobster in a Mets hat.
Convinced they're seeing a burial, Gregory and Ryan
call in police divers and get a surprise. The dive
brings up a barrel, but it's not theirs. Instead, this one
is old and rusty, and inside is the body of a man in
blue — a cop named Jinx Mulgrew, who disappeared
ten years ago.
Like a shark, the Great Gregory plunges his teeth into
the ten-year-old death, hoping that it will finally put his
career over the top. Ryan, who reads Cheever and
contemplates early retirement, approaches the
murder in his own methodical way, knowing that it will
mean more time away from his wife and their red-
shingled house in Yonkers. For both men the case
leads behind the blue wall of silence into a mystery of
adultery and corruption. And as they move from mob
social clubs to retired police veterans, from Mulgrew's
high-strung, sophisticated widow to a sultry Puerto
Rican bar maid who was once Mulgrew's lover, the two
cops must confront their relationships with their job,
their family, and each other.
Violent, funny, and moving, 14 Peck Slip is full of
details that only a police veteran could capture, such
as the beginning of a long night in a stakeout car:
"We were like an old couple preparing for a night of
TV. We had our favorite chairs and a snack." Or
getting ready for a raid: "'AR 15,' he said. 'Light as a
feather.' 'Looks like a toy,' I said, waving off the gun.
'They're all toys, Ryan. This ain't no job for a grown
man.'" Or the Great Gregory, after being hospitalized
after an ambush outside the mob hangout: "'I love this
freaking job, Pally.'"
14 Peck Slip is as authentic — and entertaining — as
it gets.
novel packed the gut-wrenching punch of Ed Dee's
electrifying 14 Peck Slip. And not since Robert Daley
and William Caunitz has anyone captured the pathos,
violence, and dark humor of being a cop in New York
City. Whether it is the complex interplay between two
longtime partners, the conversation in a police bar at
closing time, or a midnight call to look down at the
body of a dead informant, Ed Dee captures a world of
law and disorder with an insider's relentless vision.
In the darkness of a December morning in lower
Manhattan's Fulton Fish Market a mob rip-off is under
way: thousands of pounds of fish are calmly "tapped"
— stolen — from wholesalers on the street. It's the
price of doing business.
But detectives Joe Gregory and Anthony Ryan have
not come to Peck Slip to stop fish tapping. They've
come to watch a fifty-gallon drum being dumped into
the East River by a mobster in a Mets hat.
Convinced they're seeing a burial, Gregory and Ryan
call in police divers and get a surprise. The dive
brings up a barrel, but it's not theirs. Instead, this one
is old and rusty, and inside is the body of a man in
blue — a cop named Jinx Mulgrew, who disappeared
ten years ago.
Like a shark, the Great Gregory plunges his teeth into
the ten-year-old death, hoping that it will finally put his
career over the top. Ryan, who reads Cheever and
contemplates early retirement, approaches the
murder in his own methodical way, knowing that it will
mean more time away from his wife and their red-
shingled house in Yonkers. For both men the case
leads behind the blue wall of silence into a mystery of
adultery and corruption. And as they move from mob
social clubs to retired police veterans, from Mulgrew's
high-strung, sophisticated widow to a sultry Puerto
Rican bar maid who was once Mulgrew's lover, the two
cops must confront their relationships with their job,
their family, and each other.
Violent, funny, and moving, 14 Peck Slip is full of
details that only a police veteran could capture, such
as the beginning of a long night in a stakeout car:
"We were like an old couple preparing for a night of
TV. We had our favorite chairs and a snack." Or
getting ready for a raid: "'AR 15,' he said. 'Light as a
feather.' 'Looks like a toy,' I said, waving off the gun.
'They're all toys, Ryan. This ain't no job for a grown
man.'" Or the Great Gregory, after being hospitalized
after an ambush outside the mob hangout: "'I love this
freaking job, Pally.'"
14 Peck Slip is as authentic — and entertaining — as
it gets.
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