Tommy Gun (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine unread condition light blue boards, dark blue spine, and silver spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Authors' Dedications; Prologue and Acknowledgments. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates. "One of the most spectacular cases of police corruption in the city." - New York Times. "The worst betrayal of the badge in the NYPD's history." - Daily News. "The most heinous series of crimes ever tried in this courthouse." - Brooklyn Federal Judge Jack Weinstein. "Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa - the former NYPD "Mafia cops" - were guilty as sin of some of the most heinous crimes imaginable, including involvement in eight murders." - from the rear outer jacket. "Detectives Louie Eppolito and Steve Caracappa were the most corrupt and dangerous cops in American history. When they retired in the early 1990s, they left behind a pile of bodies - and for more than a decade, it looked like they were going to get away with it. As highly decorated NYPD detectives with access to the department's most sensitive information, they sold their badges to the Mafia - and became murderers for the mob. Eventually they retired to Las Vegas, believing they had put their lives of murder and mayhem safely behind them. And they would have lived happily ever after, if not for one dedicated cop at the end of his career and an assistant district attorney. Detective Tommy Dades and Brooklyn Assistant DA Mike Vecchione turned this seemingly unsolvable cold-blooded case into one of the great law-and-order stories in the annals of New York City. And for the first time, in this book, Dades and Vecchione tell the whole inside story of the investigation. For Detective Tommy Dades, the case began with a phone call from a distraught mother who just happened to mention an almost forgotten meeting that had taken place years earlier. Dades and Mike Vecchione had performed cold-case miracles before, but this one seemed impossible. Together, quietly and tenaciously, they began to uncover the hideous truth. A highly secret joint state and federal task force began building a body-by-body case against an incredible array of characters, from one of the most viciously insane Mafia bosses in history - who wanted to kill people he dreamed were plotting against him - to the one-eyed Jew who knew all the secrets. As the cold case got front-page-headline hot, Dades and Vecchione encountered an unexpected obstacle: the federal prosecutor plotted to take the case - and those headlines - away from Brooklyn. For the first time, the two men who brought this incredible story to life reveal the epic confrontations that occurred behind the scenes and led to a stunning courtroom announcement - and came perilously close to destroying the case against the Mafia cops. Friends of the Family is the complete, inside story of the historic case that rocked the world of law enforcement." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Risberg, Mia (book design); Foltz, Brad (jacket design); Katz, Paul (jacket photograph of gun and badge); (illustrator). …

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Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Excelente. Título original "Transpotting". Traducción de Esther Roig . EXCELENTE ejemplar. 334pp + agradecimientos + indice +1h. Tommy Gun Moretti (illustrator).

1st Edn. 63 pages, illus with 13 photographic plates and 21-line drawings, pictorial cream card covers title and soldier firing the gun in black to the upper cover. No 1 in the Know Your Weapon Series.