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Soldier, Cop and Author
March 11, 2007 (San Dimas, CA) Police-Writers.com, a
website dedicated to listing state and local
police officers who have authored books and
Military-Writers.com, a website dedicated to military personnel who have written
books, added a prolific author who has served our country both as a soldier and
police officer.
After completing
military service in
Viet Nam,
Cherokee Paul McDonald
joined the
Fort Lauderdale Police Department
in 1970. Rising to the rank of sergeant, he left the department in 1980,
becoming a full-time writer. In addition to his fiction novels,
Cherokee Paul McDonald
has written two books about his life experiences. One reader comments on Pauls
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.
Cherokee Paul McDonalds fictional works
include Summers Reason, Gulf Stream and The
Patch.
Police-Writers.com now hosts 390
police officers (representing 163
police departments) and their 844 books in six
categories, there are also listings of United States federal law enforcement
employees turned authors, international
police officers who have written books and
civilian police personnel who have written books. Military-Writers.com lists 10
former, active or retired military personnel and their 18 books.
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