Night Watch

For more than a year, Jack Olsen embedded himself in the world of big-city police. He rode with them on their beats, visited them in their homes, walked with them into bars and back alleys and onto what he called "the killing grounds of this most dangerous of occupations."

What he found became Night Watch.

Watch Commander Packer Lind is 37 years old, burly, dedicated, and trying to hold his precinct together. His officers are a ragtag collection of bruisers, smart-alecks, and troubled men liv...