Alphaville: 1988, Crime, Punishment, and the Battle for New York City's Lower East Side
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| Rating | : | 4.71 (929 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B005DIAQLC |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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FCV96 said Couldn't Put it Down!. Alphaville simply has to be read to be fully appreciated - it paints the scene of 1980s NYC and the problems that plagued it wonderfully, and genuinely puts things into perspectives for those of us that weren't around or able to remember the time period clearly enough. The stories are intense, the humor is memorable, and it will leave you unable to stop reading un. The Book about the East Village! Vic Navarro I received the book yesterday so I just started reading it. I'm interested in the book because I was raised there and know the neighborhood very well. I will probably like it. I liked the photo in the front of the book.. "DON'T MISS THIS ONE!" according to NYC Mom. Whether it's #kittywells or #plasticsoul , #richardstarkey , #filmnoir or the #twintowers , #wildgirl @Paul McCartney , Spencer for Hire , #beachblanketbingo , you name it this is the sh*te. #therealthing. Never bought a better book in my life
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 footchases and close calls—Codella and Gio always saw Alphabet City the same way: worth saving. Alphaville, Codella’s riveting, no-holds-barred memoir, resurrects the vicious streets that Davie Blue Eyes owned, and tells the story of how Codella bagged the so-called Fo
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. 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. (Nov.) (c) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. 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 dom