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On January 21, 1998, the night before his thirty-eighth birthday, federal prosecutor Stanley Alpert was kidnapped as he was walking home in Manhattan - and an extraordinary adventure, at once chilling and darkly comic, began. Alpert was taken by a car full of gun-toting thugs looking to use his ATM card, but when they learned his bank balance, the plan changed. They took him, blindfolded by his own scarf, to a Brooklyn apartment, with the idea of going to a bank the next day and withdrawing most of it. But the later it got, the more the plan changed again...and again...as his captors alternately held guns to his head, threatened his family, engaged him in discussions of gangsta philosophy, sought his legal advice and, once they learned it was his birthday, offered him sexual favors from their prostitute girlfriends as a "birthday present." All the while, Alpert, still blindfolded, talked with them, played on their attitudes and fears, tried to figure out where their mood swings would take them next, and memorized every detail he could in the event he ever managed to get out of there alive. In the meantime, his friends and law enforcement colleagues, worried that they hadn't heard from him, launched a major police and FBI investigation. This, too, would take many twists and turns before it was done - some of them very strange indeed. Told not only from Alpert's memory and notes, but from police reports; interviews with NYPD detectives, FBI agents and witnesses; videotaped confessions; and court records, Surprise Party reads like a thriller - but every word is true.
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Stanley N. Alpert served for thirteen years with the U.S. Department of Justice, as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, where he was Chief of Environmental Litigation. There, Alpert investigated, prosecuted and supervised many complex civil and criminal cases, some resulting in multi-million-dollar awards. He now runs The Alpert Firm in New York City, where he lives.
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- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0091796199
- ISBN 13 9780091796198
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Book Description Condition: Near Mint. On January 21, 1998, the night before his thirty-eighth birthday, federal prosecutor Stanley Alpert was kidnapped as he was walking home in Manhattan and an extraordinary adventure, at once chilling and darkly comic, began. Alpert was taken by a carful of gun-toting thugs looking to use his ATM card, but when they learned his bank balance, the plan changed. They took him, blindfolded by his own scarf, to a Brooklyn apartment, with the idea of going to a bank the next day and withdrawing most of it. But the later it got, the more the plan changed again.and again.as his captors alternately held guns to his head, threatened his family, engaged him in discussions of gangsta philosophy, sought his legal advice and, once they learned it was his birthday, offered him sexual favors from their prostitute girlfriends as a 'birthday present.' All the while, Alpert, still blindfolded, talked with them, played on their attitudes and fears, tried to figure out where their mood swings would take them next, and memorized every detail he could in the event he ever managed to get out of there alive. in the meantime, his friends and law enforcement colleagues, worried that they hadn't heard from him, launched a major police and FBi investigation. This, too, would take many twists and turns before it was done some of them very strange indeed. Told not only from Alpert's memory and notes, but from police reports; interviews with NYPD detectives, FBi agents and witnesses; videotaped confessions; and court records, Surprise Party reads like a thriller but every word is true. 320 pages. Seller Inventory # 780796
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