From Blue Blood to Cop Novel

The NY Post reports on Ed Conlon’s new book deal to write a police thriller:

Detective Ed Conlon has just sold his first novel — a gritty cop thriller set in the northern tip of Manhattan — to the Riverhead imprint of Penguin Inc.

Conlon may have to take the boys out for a few at Stan’s Hall of Fame bar to celebrate.

The advance for the still untitled book is estimated to be $550,000.

Conlon is already a best-selling author of the streetwise non-fiction cop tome "Blue Blood," an insider’s account of life patrolling housing projects in the South Bronx. It was a finalist for the National Book Critics Award this year.

Look for the book to be published in a little while — like 2008. (In other words, I wonder how many pages he’s actually written prior to selling it — I’ll guess 12 plus outline…)