Orphaned at eighteen, a naïve and solitary Chris Pritchard joins the Metropolitan Police in search of a family, friends and a regular income.Despite barely concealed contempt for her hapless new charge, his experienced instructor WPC Dawn Matthews puppy walks him through a journey which is regularly amusing, frequently sad and occasionally bizarre.On his last day of training, their growing friendship is put to the ultimate test.From Green to Blue is told with a deference to realism which draws the reader into a murky world where the planting of evidence and perverting the course of justice are simply tools to oil the wheels of justice; and brutality and corruption are persistent if unwelcome companions.The next book in the Trilogy, From Black to Blue, sees Christopher caught up in an maelstrom of police corruption; this is available to purchase on my author's page.The author is a police officer who has served with the Met for over thirty years. Having walked the beat in the early eighties in some of London’s most fractious communities, he worked on a variety of specialist teams dealing with murder, fraud, witness protection and surveillance before becoming a Detective Inspector responsible for investigating the most serious cases of police corruption.
