Edward Conlon

“Good cops make their bosses look good, and Hector was a one-man beauty school.”

“What is the world coming to, when you can't trust a whore named Snake?”

“The bulletproof vest--'bullet resistant,' technically--is made of two double panels of a synthetic material called Kevlar, inside a cloth carrier that holds it around your torso like a lead X-ray smock. One cop wrote phrases from the Bible on his, 'Yea, though I walk in the valley of the Shadow of Death...' Other cops wrote their blood type.”