One reader comments on Paul’s In
Blue Truth: Walking the Thin Blue Line-One Cop's Story of Life in the Streets, “I was about sixteen years
old when I first read this book. Twelve years later, I am a cop myself, and have read and re-read this book at least twenty
times since then. This book is the real deal...it doesn't glorify our job like other books have done...just the real and the
raw. It gets to the bottom of what cops have to put up with every day.”
Cherokee Paul McDonald explores his military service
in, Into the Green: A Reconnaissance by Fire. In 1968, he arrived in Vietnam a U.S. Army second
lieutenant, assigned as an artillery forward observer. After a year service, he fell victim to malaria and was evacuated.
According to the Library Journal, Into the Green: A Reconnaissance by Fire, “speaks volumes
about the stress and terror of war while also reminding the reader of the touching humanity of the erstwhile civilians called
upon for military service. In place of an exhaustive, day-by-day account of the war, McDonald introduces Vietnam through a
series of vignettes on life in and out of the firing line. This is Vietnam as it has rarely been described, and each short
narrative offers an eloquent testimonial to the conflict.”
In addition to his autobiographical accounts, Cherokee
Paul McDonald has written one true crime novel, Under Contract: The True Account of a Cop Hired to Kill.
This work is the tale of Al Smith, a Fort Lauderdale Police Department detective who posed as a hit man. According to
Kirkus reviews, “What terrifies here is the repeated verification of the old saw about the banality of evil. In one
memorable case, a sweet, petite, under-20 blond, answering an ad placed in the personals by a love-hungry bachelor, makes
a request for the murder of her husband; short of cash, she wants to finance the crime on the installment plan.”
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