Lost Wings

Pulsating with the heartbeat of the city that doesn't sleep, "Lost Wings: The True Story of a Disgraced NYPD Cop" is an all-points bulletin - a revelation of life as it is lived day-to-day by the men and women in blue whose firmly held territory is your neighborhood precinct. Former officer Chris Ramos, who wanted only one thing - to earn and hold a job as a New York City police Officer - takes us along on his daily tour of duty: eight terror-soaked hours and thirty-five minutes in the "Alamo" war zone, where every second is ticked off in gunshots or the harsh discord of domestic violence.

Then, on a seemingly ordinary night much like many others, agents of the Internal Affairs Bureau of the NYPD unexpectedly appear to inform him that he has failed a departmental drug test that he knows he should have passed, effectively ending a promising career and changing his life forever.

Robbin Christopher Ramos pulls no punches, and after reading "Lost Wings," you will never look at a city policeman in the same way again.