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:
“Signor Antonio, many a time and oft
In the Rialto you have rated me
About my moneys and my usances.
Still have I borne it with a patient shrug,
For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.
You call me misbeliever, cutthroat dog,
And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine,
And all for use of that which is mine own.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“My ambition for station was always easily controlled. If the place came to me it was welcome. But it never seemed to me worth seeking at the cost of self-respect, or independence. My family were not historic; they were well-to-do, did not hold or seek office. It was easy for me to be contented in private life. An honor was no honor to me, if obtained by my own seeking.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)