Bernard B. Kerik’s autobiography, The Lost Son: A Life in Pursuit of Justice, does not disappoint the reader seeking “NYPD Blue” TV-style drama at its best. But, this book is so much larger. It opens with a recurring dream of 40 years duration. A small boy, alone in the dark, cries himself to sleep. He asks repeatedly of the strangers caring for him, “When is Mommy coming to get me?” with always the same response, “Maybe today, dear.” But today never comes, and 45-year-old Kerik, wakes in the night crying for the mother who abandoned him.
Mr. Kerik’s quest for the truth regarding his mother’s brief and tragic life is the sad refrain connecting the fast-paced vignettes of his rise from neighborhood loser to New York City police commissioner. “I won’t rest until I find out why this woman was killed and who killed her,” Mr. Kerik declares in Chapter One, and his investigation ultimately becomes a transforming self-exploration.
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