My Father’s Gun: One Family, Three Badges, One Hundred Years In The NYPD"A dramatic memoir of three generations of Irish American police officers . . . Haunting." --The New York Times Book Review "A lucid chronicle." -- The New Yorker "A rich and riveting narrative . . . Nuanced, colorful, frank, free of all the usual cop cliches." --Newsday "McDonalds first book offers an original take upon this storied (and notorious) institution and on the conflicted inner lives of one cop family, written with grace, seriousness, and historical understanding." -- Kirkus "A quality mixture of cop drama, social context, and personality portraiture." -- Booklist "Rendered with brooding elegance..."-- Publisher's Weekly (starred review) "...a brooding piece of personal history." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution "...as good as the best cop fiction of Joseph Wambaugh, Dorothy Uhnak and Richard Price." -- USA Today |
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