Blue & Grey City

“Look over your shoulder; Justice is coming… Hell has victories. I am at peace.”

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This was the last thing a white supremacist cop killer said just before his execution and only hours before Officer Reed Dixon’s already unsteady world was thrust into a vortex of death and destruction. Life would never be the same, partly due to the menacing last words and the one who proclaimed them, though they would never meet.

 

Four years earlier, when Reed Dixon moved from rural Arkansas to become a big-city cop, he did not realize his soul would die by a thousand cuts before the zenith of a complete metamorphosis that nearly cost him everything, including his life. A brief stint in the military was not much more than a parenthesis between a dirt road life picking cotton and feeding cows after school, and proudly patrolling the streets in a shiny black and white of the Oklahoma City Police Department.

 

Within weeks of hitting the streets, the twenty-two year old rookie with black Arkansas mud under his nails and an unjaded expectation of American urbanity began to experience convenience store gut-grenades, revelrous you-just-had-to- be-there keggers, and at least one unlikely inner-city friendship. He would also undergo a latent, gradual, hardening permutation as he is bombarded with the realities of life - real life, in uniform. The evolution would threaten all he ever was and all he wanted to be. Wreckage or redemption lie at the other end of the arc. Either way, his breaking would come first.

 

Blue & Grey City is a fictional account of the true stories of so many idealistic men and women who join the thin blue line to help save the world, only to find that the fight for survival on the streets often takes - even demands, much more than a physical toll on them and the ones who love them.