Alphaville: 1988, Crime, Punishment, And The Battle For New York City's Lower East Side
by Michael Codella /
2010 / English / PDF
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A raw, gritty memoir part true-life cop thriller, part
unputdownable history of a storied time and place that will grip
you by the throat until the explosive end.
A raw, gritty memoir part true-life cop thriller, part
unputdownable history of a storied time and place that 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 Eyes a stone-cold murderer and the head of
Alphabet City's heroin supply chain. Despite the hell they endured
all the beatings and gunshots, the footchases, and close calls
Codella and Gio always saw Alphabet City the same way: worth
saving.
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 Eyes a stone-cold murderer and the head of
Alphabet City's heroin supply chain. Despite the hell they endured
all the beatings and gunshots, the footchases, and close calls
Codella and Gio always saw Alphabet City the same way: worth
saving.Alphaville
Alphaville, Codella's 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
, Codella's 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 ofThe
French Connection
The
French Connection, the insights of a seasoned insider, and a
relentless voice that reads like the city's own,
, the insights of a seasoned insider, and a
relentless voice that reads like the city's own,Alphaville
Alphaville
is at once the story of a dedicated New York cop and of New York
City itself.
is at once the story of a dedicated New York cop and of New York
City itself.
