The Birthday Party: A Memoir of Survival
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (731 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0425219119 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 324 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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Though the second part of the account, detailing the mechanics of the arrests and sentencing of the perpetrators, along with Alpert's return to normalcy, is relatively dry and slow, Alpert delivers an honest, vivid chronicle of the suspenseful event itself in the memoir's first half. All rights reserved. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, describes his abduction and release, and the subsequent trial of the kidnappers, with an impressive amount of detail and only the occasional note of self-congratulation for how he handled the ordeal. On the night before his 38th birthday, Alpert was forced at gunpoint into a car near his Greenwich Village apartment, blindfolded, made to relinquish his ATM and PIN, and driven to Brooklyn, where he was kept in an apartment full of oddly personable, gun-wielding youths and teenage prost
Filled with immediacy, drama, and extraordinary characters, The Birthday Party reads like a thriller-but every word is true.. On January 21, 1998, the night before his thirty-eighth birthday, federal prosecutor Stanley N. Alpert was kidnapped off the streets of Manhattan by a car full of gun-toting thugs looking to use his ATM card. All the while, Alpert, still blindfolded, talked with them, played on their attitudes and fears, and memorized every detail he could in the event that he ever managed to get out of there alive. He ended up blindfolded in a Brooklyn apartment as his captors changed their plans, alternately threatening him and his family, seeking legal advice, expounding on the "gangsta" life, and offering him the services of their prostitute girlfriends as a birthday present
Benjamin said Good read. Suspenseful page-turner.. This is the sort of story that wouldn't work as fiction -- just slightly too bizarre to be believable. But it all really happened, and all the facts are fully substantiated. That makes it suspenseful and exciting and occasionally very funny. I really could. Birthday Party -- not so happy Patricia Rosenleaf Perhaps it was the hype from some reading friends, but I found this book a total disappointment. I was told the book was "hilarious!" It's not remotely funny -- the author's predicament is scary, for sure.. Unbelievable Story This book tells an amazing story of survival. Great book to if you want a quick read, you can easily knock it out in one sitting. It keeps you reading even though you know the outcome from the onset. Often times the author comes off as pompous, commenting