Instead, he sat down in his writer's room at home and created the character of sharp-witted, down-to-earth, Long Island North Shore police chief Jeep Mullane. The first novel, Johnny Careless, was released in 2025. And today, One Good Eye is hitting bookshelves.
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“All these guys culled from where they lived,” says Wade, who has predominantly lived on Long Island for the past 25 years. “The deadbeats, the heroes, the shysters, the con men, so I tried to do it that way, so I wrote about the North Shore of Long Island.”
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“The hardest part of the transition was all my life I'd written plays and screenplays and then a lot of television, and I collaborated with directors and cinematographers and casting people and, most importantly, actors. And then all of a sudden I had none of them,” Wade explains. “Actors are so important because you're writing a character knowing that someone with charm and charisma and beauty and wit is going to turn it into a three-dimensional aspirational thing. The novel is your words on a page and that's it. There has to be some muscle to the language that wasn't really necessary in screenwriting.”
Prior to joining Blue Bloods, Wade had famously written two rom-coms that always make the best of lists, Working Girl and Maid in Manhattan, both of which are thematically similar in the premise of have-nots striving to succeed and making it. Jeep Mullane similarly is the odd man out in a group of friends who are wealthy and he’s the blue-collar contingent.
“I don't if it's subconscious or unconscious, I've never tried to figure it out, but I've always been attracted to protagonists who essentially have their nose pressed to the glass and on the other side of the glass, it looks like a better life, and so they end up -- if they get in there at all -- it's by using their wits and not their bona fides. They're good at improv,” Wade says. “They know who they are. Usually in the middle of those stories, they lose who they are, and then in the end, they go, ‘I need to reclaim myself to get to the next step.’”
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“They were there working on this new show Blue Bloods, and I was around, and someone asked me to come in and meet them,” Wade says. “The next day I started work there as a staff writer, and then I guess I had a feel for it. I got along very well with Leonard, and I was friends with Tom and got him, so I ended up running the show by the end of that first season.”
“Everybody who wanted it to go on weren't budgeting it and paying for it,” he says. “There is that element that is unmovable. Briefly, the economics of a one-hour television show shot in New York with a large cast, lots of locations, and everybody gets more year to year — everybody negotiates whatever — and all the union crews, it's baked in. So the reason was – and I'm not saying I agree with it, I've just reporting to the reporter — that it just got too expensive.”
“I watched the pilot, and I loved Donnie [Wahlberg] in it,” he says. “I don't really have a judgment. I did notice, and I was pleasantly surprised that family dinner was there and that the set design even included a similar table and sideboards. And as you moved in through the living room, a very similar fireplace with a very similar mantle. I thought, ‘OK, very well. I guess if you're going to steal from us, just put it out there.’ Good for you.”
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