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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.
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.
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..
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.
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.
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 Nightbird is stamped with the authentic feel of the mean streets and the cops who must walk them... He works these 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 of ex-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.
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.
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.
