Alphaville

AlphavilleCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780330533638 Format: B format paperback Year: 2012 Publisher: Pan Macmillan UK Pages: 304 Description: The brutal and compulsive true tale of two cops attempt to cleanse a New York neighbourhood of crime in a heroin epidemic Welcome to Alphabet City, Manhattan's most crime ridden neighbourhood with murder, rape and violence hitting record levels on the streets, fuelled by a drug problem that's got the city by the throat. It

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780330533638
Format: B-format paperback
Year: 2012
Publisher: Pan Macmillan UK
Pages: 304


Description:


The brutal and compulsive true tale of two cops attempt to cleanse a New York neighbourhood of crime in a heroin epidemic

Welcome to Alphabet City, Manhattan's most crime-ridden neighbourhood with murder, rape and violence hitting record levels on the streets, fuelled by a drug problem that's got the city by the throat. It was into this vision of hell that Mike Codella and his partner Gio stepped in 1988, two plainclothes narcs expected just to pull a few street arrests to keep statistics looking good, and try to get out alive. But Mike had his eyes on something bigger. Davey Blue Eyes: local kingpin, druglord and stone cold murderer. Just one drawback – no one even knew what he looked like. Fascinating, brutal and told with a furious, even poetic energy, Alphaville stands shoulder to shoulder with other modern true crime classics such as Serpico, The French Connection, Wiseguy, or David Simon's Homicide.