Signal Thirty-Two

MACKINLAY KANTOR
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Andersonville

The 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 Commissio...