Signal Thirty-Two

MACKINLAY KANTORPulitzer Prize-winning author of AndersonvilleThe Twenty-Third Precinct of the New York City Police Department includes within its boundaries exalted penthouses and reeking slums.The story concerns three men in blue, their loves, their ambitions, their contentions-the cruelty they encounter, the courage they offer, the pity and aid they are able to give. It speeds through the reader's consciousness like a patrol car wailing in midnight traffic.In 1948 the Acting Commissioner...