Buddy Boys

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons BOOK: Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Front Free Endpaper Missing; Non-Sticky Tape Residue to Boards Where Jacket Was Once Taped On; Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Heavily Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Non-Sticky Tape Residue to Boards Where Jacket Was Once Taped On; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Fading/Discolouring to Spine Portion Due to Previously-Affixed Sticker, Sun Exposure; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: When Good Cops Turn Bad. BOOK NUMBER: 8801. JACKET DESIGN: Lawrence Ratzkin. CONTENTS: Prologue 1. "We have a deal." 2. "Some of you will be arrested." 3. "I'm from Bed-Stuy. Do or die." 4. The Alamo 5. "You killed that guy for ten dollars?" 6. "Will you just shoot me?" 7. "I was exhausted. I couldn't hit another person." 8. "Yep. They got it all, lady." 9. "Buddy Boy, Buddy Bob." 10. "I know there's somebody out there watching me." 11. "If I was a rat, do you think this precinct would still be here?" 12. "Good morning. I missed my appointment." 13. "Hey, Buddy Boy."; Epilogue. SYNOPSIS: The next step down from the 77th Precinct is hell itself. The reporter who got the inside story reveals the human drama behind the biggest New York police corruption scandal since the days of Serpico and Prince of the City. Henry Winter began as an honest cop. Then he became a "tough" cop, often taking the law into his own hands. So they banished him to "the Alamo"--the Brooklyn dumping ground for department disciplinary problems. Once installed in the 77th Precinct neighborhoods of Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights, the ghetto infernos that annually produced more homicides than the entire city of Boston, Henry Winter did what so many fellow officers had already done--he went bad. What turns a good cop around? What makes a devoted family man and solid citizen who has never broken the law become a thief, drug dealer, extortionist, and worse? What makes an entire precinct so brazenly corrupt that cops hold up drug dealers in broad daylight and set up fake robbers, and then sell the drugs and goods themselves, taking pride in being members of an elite gang of criminal cops who call themselves "The Buddy Boys"? Henry Winter knows the answers all too well--the addictive thrill of danger, the irresistible temptations, the need to be "the Man." He was one of the "rotten apples" the officials went after when trouble started at the Alamo. Unlike one of the cops, however, Winter didn't take his life when his crimes were revealed. Instead, he consented to "wear a wire" and, along with his partner, Tony Magno, set up a sting operation to nail other bad cops. Although he feels redeemed by this act, he is still considered a rat by his fellow officers, and after the trial of the thirteen indicted cops, Winter's treasured career as a police officer will end--in disgrace. Make McAlary's remarkable investigations for Newsday helped break the Alamo scandal; he knows the territory and he knows Henry Winter. In Buddy Boys, he recounts the shocking and saddening story of one misguided cop, but he goes much further--providing a searing investigation of a precinct gone mad in a world where the lines between integrity and greed, law and lawlessness have blurred into a purgatory of corruption, violence, and personal tragedy. Mike McAlary is a reporter for New York Newsday. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Alice, and their two children, Ryan and Carla.. First Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Fair/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.