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"A raw, gritty memoir--part true-life cop thriller, part unputdownable history of a storied time and place--that will grip you by the throat until the explosive end. In 1988, Alphabet City burned with heroin, radicalism, and antipolice 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 ..."@en
"Setting his story against one of the grittiest New York City neighborhoods of the late 1980s, Codella, a retired detective sergeant in the NYPD, with ghostwriter Bennett, relates how a tradition-rich district still populated by aging Polish and Ukrainian immigrants was threatened with destruction by the heroin trade. Codella describes his own origins in Brooklyn's Canarsie neighborhood, where old-time mob capos and cops lived side-by-side, as a prelude to his joining the police crusade against a ruthless drug kingpin, Davey Blue Eyes, and his loyal gang of smack dealers, "The Forty Thieves." They dominated the part of lower Manhattan known as Alphabet City. Written in a hyper-noir style reminiscent of Richard Price and George Pelecanos, this memoir features all the stuff of an excellent police procedural complete with drug gang rivalries, beatings, killings, and endless dealer collars and convictions. Raw, bloody, and very real, Codella's book is a historical snapshot of what was one of Gotham's most dangerous neighborhoods and the men who brought order to its frightening mayhem."@en
"In 1988, Alphabet City burned with heroin, radicalism, and anti-police sentiment. A plainclothes narcotics cop working in the most high-voltage neighborhood in Manhattan, Detective Sergeant Mike Codella earned the nickname "Rambo" from the local dealers--and a $50,000 bounty on his head. The son of a cop, Codella knew that the further east you got, the deeper you entered the misery, greed, addiction, and violence that comes with an illegal drug trade. Codella made it his personal mission to put away Davey Blue Eyes--a stone-cold murderer and the head of Alphabet City's heroin supply chain. Alphaville, a riveting, no-holds-barred memoir, resurrects the vicious streets Davey Blue Eyes owned and tells the story of how Codella bagged the "Forty Thieves" that surrounded Davey, slowly working his way to the head of the snake one scale at a time."@en
"Documents the author's experiences as a plain-clothes narcotics police officer in Manhattan's Alphabet City of the late 1980s, describing how he and his partner worked to bring down a murderous heroin lord by targeting dozens of thieves who made up a dangerous support network."@en

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"Alphaville"@en
"Alphaville 1988, crime, punishment, and the battle for New York City's Lower East Side"@en
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"Alphaville 1988, crime, punishment, and the battle for New York City's lower East Side"@en

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