Robert Daley

Robert Daley (born 1930 in New York City, New York - ), is an American novelist. He previously served as Deputy Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (NYPD). He graduated from Fordham University in 1951 and served in the Air Force during the Korean War. He spent six seasons as publicity director for the New York Giants of the National Football League in the days of Frank Gifford, Charlie Conerly and Sam Huff. He then worked on the foreign staff of The New York Times for six years. His award-winning 1978 non-fiction work, Prince of the City, was hailed by The New York Times Book Review: "The policeman as flawed hero, a recurrent and enormously popular figure in contemporary writing, has never been done better." Altogether, Daley has written 18 novels

Two of his novels have been made into movies, "Year of the Dragon," "Night Falls on Manhattan," while "Prince of the City" also made the big screen.

Works

Novels

*"The Whole Truth" (1967)
*"Only a Game" (1967)
*"A Priest and a Girl" (1969)
*"Strong Wine, Red as Blood" (1975)
*"To Kill A Cop" (1976)
*"The Fast One" (1978)
*"Year of the Dragon" (1981)
*"The Dangerous Edge" (1983)
*"Hands of a Stranger" (1985)
*"Man with a Gun" (1988)
*"A Faint Cold Fear" (1990)
*"Tainted Evidence" (1993)
*"Wall of Brass" (1994)
*"Nowhere to Run" (1996)
*"Night Falls on Manhattan" (1997)
*"The Innocents Within" (1999)
*"The Enemy of God" (2005)
*"Pictures" (2006)

Non Fiction

*"The World Beneath the City" (1959)
*"Cars at Speed"
*"A Star in the Family"
*"The Cruel Sport" (1963)
*"The Swords of Spain"
*"Target Blue: An Insider's View of the N.Y.P.D." (1973)
*"Treasure" (1977)
*"Prince of the City: The True Story of a Cop Who Knew Too Much" (1978)
*"An American Saga"
*"Portraits of France" (1991)

References

*http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/d/robertdaley/
*http://www.imdb.com