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Alphaville - 1988, Crime, Punishment, and the Battle for New York City's Lower East Side

By: St. Martin's Press

Type: Novel - Hardcover

Product Line: Modern Novels (St. Martin's Press)

Last Stocked on 10/30/2015

Product Info

Title
Alphaville - 1988, Crime, Punishment, and the Battle for New York City's Lower East Side
Publisher
Category
Sub-category
Author
Michael Codella, Bruce Bennett
Publish Year
2010
Pages
320
Dimensions
6.5x9.75x2"
NKG Part #
2147568128
Type
Novel - Hardcover

Description

A raw, gritty memoir—part true-life cop thriller, part un-put-down-able history of a storied time and place—that will grip you by the throat until the explosive end

Alphabet City in 1988 burned with heroin, radicalism, and anti-police sentiment. Working as a plainclothes narcotics cop in the most high-voltage neighborhood in Manhattan, Detective Sergeant Mike Codella earned the nickname “Rambo” from the local dealers, as well as a $50,000 bounty on his head. The son of a cop who grew up in a mob neighborhood in Brooklyn, Codella understood the unwritten laws of the shadowy businesses that ruled the streets. He knew that the further east you got from the relative safety of 5th Avenue, Washington Square Park and NYU, the deeper you entered the sea of human misery, greed, addiction, violence and all the things that come with an illegal retail drug trade run wild. With his partner, Gio, Codella made it his personal mission to put away Davie Blue Eyes—a stone cold murderer and the head of Alphabet City's heroin supply chain. Despite the hell they endured—all the beatings and gunshots, the foot chases and close calls—Codella and Gio always saw Alphabet City the same way: worth saving.