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Alphaville: 1988, Crime, Punishment, And The Battle For New York City's Lower East Side (2010)

by Michael Codella(Favorite Author)

3.61 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0312592485 (ISBN13: 9780312592486)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Thomas Dunne Books

review 1: This is a good look at New York at it's most smacked out and destitute told from the perspective of a police man who was there fighting against the rampant heroin trace in alphabet city.At times the book feels like it has been cut and pasted together so familiar are some of the stories they tell but overall it gives a good overview of what went wrong and how New York ended up with such a huge problem for so long.
review 2: Tons of gritty realism, some fascinating history surrounding the region of Alphabet City, New York as well as the origins of the popular rise in Heroin use. Those are the points which made this hold my attention and kept me turning the pages.What disappointed me slightly was that there was no firm conclusion, no further details on what happen... moreed to Mike Codella following the events in the book and a slightly irritating and utterly redundant use of alternating chapters describing the rise of Codella's career with those describing his pursuit of the criminal known as Davey Blue Eyes.A good read but easy to see why others may not think so. less

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