A true story of friendship, revenge, and ambiguous justice centers on four men who, as teenagers in an upstate New York reform school, were brutalized by guards, one of whom crosses their path years later

Product Description: Bad Seeds in the Big Apple' is the first book to profile New York City's notorious bandits, gunmen, and desperados of the Prohibition and Depression eras. While numerous books have been written on the city's organized-crime scene, this book completes the picture by introducing readers to infamous New Yorkers such as Richard Reese Whittemore, leader of a gang of jewel thieves; extortion queen Vivian Gordon; bandit and Sing Sing escapee James Nannery; Al Stern and his gang of kidnappers, the men behind the ill-fated 1926 Tombs Prison break; the marauders behind the 1934 Rubel Ice Plant armored car robbery; and dozens of other law breakers who have never before been covered in book form...read more

The true account of the first Mafia Godfather to break the sacred code of omerta by talking to the FBI to avoid the death penalty.

Traces the story of the NYPD officer who solved the murder investigations of Tupac Shakur and other famous hip-hop artists, describing such elements as the department's establishment of a hip-hop crime special force, Parker's struggles with internal politics, and the integral relationship between hip-hop culture, gangs, and drugs. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

Traces the story of the NYPD officer who solved the murders of Tupac Shakur and other famous hip-hop artists, describing the establishment of a hip-hop crime special force and the relationship between hip-hop culture, gangs, and drugs.

Traces the story of the NYPD officer who solved the murders of Tupac Shakur and other famous hip-hop artists, describing the establishment of a hip-hop crime special force and the relationship between hip-hop culture, gangs, and drugs.

Traces the story of the NYPD officer who solved the murder investigations of Tupac Shakur and other famous hip-hop artists, describing such elements as the department's establishment of a hip-hop crime special force, Parker's struggles with internal politics, and the integral relationship between hip-hop culture, gangs, and drugs. 150,000 first printing.

New York's finest detectives recall their famous and not-so-famous cases, aided by uncensored transcripts of interviews with and confessions by the 'bad guys.' By the author of The Hundred Percent Solution.