True Blue: To Protect and Serve

by Randy Sutton

Lieutenant Randy Sutton’s fascinating collection of stories and memories, solicited from law enforcement officers across the country, offers a broad and insightful look at the many facets of police life: courage, exhilaration, frustration, loss, and even humor, from the everyday to the career-defining moments on the job. Told by the cops that lived them, these stories show what it truly means to protect and serve.

Readers will come to recognize the faces behind the badge, as they witness officers charge into the unknown on The Beat, honor and mourn friends in The Fallen, hear the War Stories spread in police locker rooms and bars, discover the unbreakable line between civilian and cop in the Line of Duty, and feel the blood-boiling adrenaline during those life-altering moments when a cop must use Deadly Force. TRUE BLUE: To Protect and Serve is a funny, exciting, haunting compilation of true stories written by active and retired police officers, most of whom have never written before, alongside published officers from all over the United States. 

A portion of the royalties for this book will be donated to The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.

304 pages, Hardcover

First published April 29, 2008

Reviews

[Bonnie Krueger]

As a new police mom, I am not sure why I wanted to read the stories but it did help me understand some of the struggles and triumphs of policing. Some of the police officers are not great storytellers but most of the stories were good.

[James]

Interesting. Some funny, some sad stories. Some of them read too much like a police report.

[Sassychicken]

The funniest was the story about the mustard gas transaction. The saddest...I can't say.