• Red on Red

  • A Novel
  • By: Edward Conlon
  • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
  • Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
  • 3.8 out of 5 stars (37 ratings)

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Red on Red

By: Edward Conlon
Narrated by: Mark Deakins
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Publisher's summary

A gripping debut work of crime fiction, from the author of the best-selling memoir about life as a New York City cop, Blue Blood. (“May be the best account ever written of life behind the badge.” - Time).

In Red on Red, Edward Conlon tells the electrifying and suspenseful story of two NYPD detectives, Meehan and Esposito: One damaged and introspective, the other ambitious and unscrupulous. Meehan is compelled by haunting and elusive stories that defy easy resolution, while Esposito is drawn to cases of rough and ordinary combat. A fierce and unlikely friendship develops between them and plays out against a tangle of mysteries: A lonely immigrant who hangs herself in Inwood Hill Park, a serial rapist preying on upper Manhattan, a troubled Catholic schoolgirl who appears in the wrong place with uncanny regularity, and a savage gang war that erupts over a case of mistaken identity.

A literary thriller about the twisted dynamic of a successful police partnership - the tests of loyalty, the necessary betrayals, the intersections of life and work - Red on Red tells an unrelenting and exciting story that captures the grittiness, complexity, ironies, and compromises of life on the job.

©2011 Edward Conlon (P)2011 Random House

Critic reviews

“A big, daring, psychologically complex story—passionate and poignant, pulsating with authenticity and street smarts yet lyrical and literary—this is the cop novel for everyone who reads books." (Joseph Wambaugh)
Red on Red is often brutal and often brutally funny, reaching into the depths of human malice and rising to the level of language that all good literature should achieve.” (Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin, winner of the National Book Award)

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Perfect Detective story

Warning: Do not start this book late at night. It is hard to put down. Excellent writing. Loved everything about this story. I do hope they turn it into a movie. The two main characters are brilliant. Cannot wait to read the author ‘s other books!

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This audio book started out ok but I have 3 hours to go and I'm struggling to finish. It moves along very slow.

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