Edward Cooper was a prominent Los Angeles divorce attorney, once seemingly invincible (at least to the author) but now sinking into dementia, whose constant philandering was hardly a secret from his sons (or presumably, his wife).
In The Bill from My Father, Bernard Cooper takes a familiar trope - a complex and unreliable parent - and gives it a unique spin as he looks back on his stormy relationship with his father. Nicely written (some of it appeared in The New Yorker as "Cop Diary" under the pseudonym Marcus Laffey) and filled with interesting characters (both cops and perps - wait, make that suspected perps), this is both a pleasure and an education to read.īy Bernard Cooper paperback, 256 pages Simon & Schuster, list price: $14 11 and the scandals and the triumphs, both large and small, that mark the history of the NYPD. After graduating from Harvard, Conlon came home and joined the New York City Police Department, walking a beat in some of the worse housing projects in the South Bronx. His wide-ranging book is partly a memoir of his experiences (he is now working as a detective for the NYPD) the effects - pro and con - of the Giuliani anti-crime years the Abner Louima and Amadou Diallo cases Sept. If you, like me, could watch Law & Order reruns eight hours a day, or if you've ever been curious about the inner workings of police departments, you'll want to rush right out and read Edward Conlon's Blue Blood. Blue Blood By Edward Conlon paperback, 576 pages Riverhead Trade, list price: $17
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