Blue - A Memoir - Keeping the Peace and Falling to Pieces

A Sunday Times top-five bestseller 'This is a remarkable book . . . profound and deeply moving . . . It has as much to tell us about mental illness as it does about policing' Alastair Stewart John Sutherland joined the Met in 1992, having dreamed of being a police officer since his teens. Rising quickly through the ranks, he experienced all that is extraordinary about a life in blue: saving lives, finding the lost, comforting the broken and helping to take dangerous people off the streets. But for every case with a happy ending, there were others that ended in desperate sadness, and in 2013 John suffered a major breakdown. Blue is his memoir of crime and calamity, of adventure and achievement, of friendship and failure, of serious illness and slow recovery. With searing honesty, it offers an immensely moving and personal insight into what it is to be a police officer in Britain today.

Product details

• Authors: John Sutherland, Sutherland John
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781474606066
• ISBN: 978-1-4746-0606-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; True Crime, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, TRUE CRIME / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Law Enforcement, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, Police & security services, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, Police and security services