Order today >
FROM THE BOOK: "Cocoanut Grove was the magnetic center of our attraction to firefighting."


An unvarnished memoir of three generations of Boston firemen
 
 “Charlie Kenney has done it again. Rescue Men is told in clean,disciplined prose, full of energy and compassion. It’s really good.”—ROBERT B. PARKER

“Charles Kenney’s Rescue Men is great. It grabs you and introduces you to generations of Boston firefighters from the unique point ofview of a rescue company. He celebrates the pride of membershipin the department and acknowledges the very real impact that being a rescue man has on their loved ones—‘that other’ family—as well.”—DEPUTY CHIEF BILLY GOLDFEDER, LOVELAND-SYMMES, OHIO, AND AUTHOR OF “THE SECRET LIST” ON FIREFIGHTERCLOSECALLS.COM

“The technical descriptions of firefighting, the grippingaccounts of fire-related rescues and the sketches of men in love with sacrifice are well handled and moving. In addition, Kenney’s ability to weave the story of six brothers growing up in blue-collar Boston, raised by a firefighting veteran father and a bootstrapping granddad, into a tapestry of great social change (WWII, civil rights, integration of schools and the fire department, 9/11) makes for an engaging tale. By the time a Kenney brother is sent as a rescuer to the World Trade Center, the family story and the social one are concluded with fulfilling thematic unity.”—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 
 

Website design by Cindy Atoji