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:
“Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman,—repose in energy.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap
To pluck bright honor from the pale-faced moon,
Or dive into the bottom of the deep,
Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,
And pluck up drowned honor by the locks.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)