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Title: Alphaville
Subtitle: 1988, Crime, Punishment, and the Battle for New York Citys Lower East Side
Author: Bruce Bennett, Michael Codella
Narrator: Keith Szarabajka
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-08-10
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 29 votes
Genres: Nonfiction, True Crime
Publisher's Summary:
A raw, gritty memoirpart true-life cop thriller, part unputdownable history of a storied time and placethat will grip you by the throat until the explosive end.
In 1988, Alphabet City burned with heroin, radicalism, and antipolice sentiment. 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 Fifth 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 Davey Blue Eyesa stone-cold murderer and the head of Alphabet Citys heroin supply chain. Despite the hell they enduredall the beatings and gunshots, the footchases, and close callsCodella and Gio always saw Alphabet City the same way: worth saving.
Alphaville, Codellas riveting, no-holds-barred memoir, resurrects the vicious streets that Davey Blue Eyes owned and tells the story of how Codella bagged the so-called Forty Thieves that surrounded Davey, slowly working his way to the head of the snake one scale at a time. With the blistering narrative spirit of The French Connection, the insights of a seasoned insider, and a relentless voice that reads like the citys own, Alphaville is at once the story of a dedicated New York cop and of New York City itself.
Critic Reviews:
A quick, nitty-gritty, page-turning read that will leave you breathlessI highly, highly recommend this read. (Philip Carlo,
New York Times best-selling author of Ice Man)
A balls-out cop tale from the bad old days of New York City. Watch your back in Alphaville. (Tom Folsom,
New York Times best-selling author of
The Mad Ones)
Addictive, brilliant, and compelling. A staggeringly well-written true-life drama, which had me breathless from the first page to the last. Stunning! (R. J. Ellory, author of
A Quiet Belief in Angels)
Members Reviews:
Excellent book!
Any additional comments?
I really enjoyed this book. I love NYC based stories and this one really portrayed the reality of the 80's in the LES. Great narration as well.
New York City the way it was.
If you grow up in NYC in the 80's this book is for you. Having been friends with people in the lower letters - theses two cops were well known back in the day, what ever side you were on. Excellent story.
Non-stop Action
Love this book from start to finish. The author delivered a brilliant story and the storyteller was perfect.
best book for the old Lower
love everything about it. its worth reading.
enjoyed and might read again... you should too
Typical arrogant idiot cop BS....
[{ "answer" : "He spends the first chunk of the book bragging about crimes he committed and idolizing mob guys then the next part of the book showing no sympathy to the drug addicts and low level drug workers he, for the most part, illegally arrests.
