Uncovering the Untold Struggles Behind the Badge: A Riveting Journey Through Duty, Marriage, and Family
But wait! The Badge Between Us is the opposite of a boring commentary on corruption in the ranks; because Investigator Dwyer is also out to tell a love story focused on the relationship between him and his wife as he navigates the treacherous waters of his career.
Tug-boats are effective because their job is singular. What happens however, if they’re tasked with tugging two (or five) boats, in an array of locations, to safety, simultaneously. And there’s the tug. As Dwyer’s book progresses, we read him as a dependable, albeit imperiled tug-boat, trapped in the multiplicity of rescuing New York from crime, protecting his wife Joan from life with a cop, completing law school, navigating parenthood and partnership, and losing faith in the Catholic church. No wonder he developed night terrors. “We aren’t retirees,” an academy classmate of Dwyer explained, “as much as we’re survivors of the job.” Thank goodness Terry survived to retire, write, run, and recover. Thank goodness he wrote his story.
