Badge of Honor (novel Series)

The Badge of Honor novel series is a series of novels written by W.E.B. Griffin about the Philadelphia Police Department. Although the books were originally set in the 1970s and early 1980s, and the characters have only aged a few years (Matt Payne is still only 27), Book VIII, Final Justice, moves the story to the post-9/11 era.

  • The books are:
    • Book I, Men in Blue (MB)
    • Book II, Special Operations (SO)
    • Book III, The Victim (V)
    • Book IV, The Witness (W)
    • Book V, The Assassin (A)
    • Book VI, The Murderers (M)
    • Book VII, The Investigators (I)
    • Book VIII, Final Justice (FJ)
    • Book IX, The Traffickers
    • Book X, The Vigilantes

Famous quotes containing the words badge and/or honor:

    Just across the Green from the post office is the county jail, seldom occupied except by some backwoodsman who has been intemperate; the courthouse is under the same roof. The dog warden usually basks in the sunlight near the harness store or the post office, his golden badge polished bright.
    —Administration for the State of Con, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    In schools all over the world, little boys learn that their country is the greatest in the world, and the highest honor that could befall them would be to defend it heroically someday. The fact that empathy has traditionally been conditioned out of boys facilitates their obedience to leaders who order them to kill strangers.
    Myriam Miedzian, U.S. author. Boys Will Be Boys, ch. 3 (1991)