The blue wall: Street cops in Canada

by Carsten Stroud

Book by Stroud, Carsten

236 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1983

About the author

Carsten Stroud is the author of the New York Times bestseller Close Pursuit, and the award-winning Sniper's Moon, both set in the New York City Police Department. He lives and writes in Thunder Beach, Ontario, Canada.

Awards:
* Arthur Ellis Award Best First Novel (1991): Sniper's Moon
* Arthur Ellis Award Best Novel (1993): Lizardskin

Reviews

[Grant Patterson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Back when I was a teenager, and I was starting to muse about following my father into law enforcement, he gave me a copy of this book for Christmas. Years later, I understood why. This is an unvarnished account of what cops in a supposedly peaceful country go through to maintain that peace. Having lived it now, and written about it too, I value this book more than ever.

[Nate Hendrix · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great portrait of cops in Canada in the early 1980s. This author started as a journalist and then became a novelist. I have read all of his nonfiction and his fiction. I look forward to reading whatever he writes in the future.