ALPHAVILLE Michael Codella and Bruce Bennett - New York 1988: Welcome to Heroin City (USA)

ALPHAVILLE: an interesting looking book on New York, a true crime book about the drug-ridden 1980's in Alphabet City, a notorious neighbourhood in Manhattan.

USED BOOK IN VERY GOOD CONDITION: nice and clean and barely read; excellent binding with no spine creases. See photos for cover blurb, condition and sample pages. The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy!

PUBLISHER'S BOOK: Alphabet City in 1988 burned with heroin, radicalism, and anti-police 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 5th 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 Davie 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, Codella's riveting, no-holds-barred memoir, resurrects the vicious streets that Davie Blue Eyes owned, and tells the story of how Codella bagged the so-called Forty Thieves that surrounded Davie, 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 city's own, Alphaville is at once the story of a dedicated New York cop, and of New York City itself.

Book Details

Code: SKU2136

Condition: See notes and photos below

Binding: Large Paperback

Pages: 365

Published: 2010 by Sidgwick & Jackson, UK\Australia

ISBN: 0283071362

Postage: $6.90

Price: AUD $12.00