Alphaville: New York, 1988: Welcome to Heroin City Book

Welcome to Alphabet City Manhattan's most crime-ridden neighbourhood with murder rape and violence hitting record levels the streets fuelled by a drug problem that's got the city by the throat. It was into this vision of hell that Mike Codella and his partner Gio stepped in 1988 two plainclothes narcs expected just to pull a few street arrests to keep statistics looking good and try to get out alive. But Mike had his eyes on something bigger. Davey Blue Eyes: local kingpin druglord and stone cold murderer. Just one drawback - no one even knew what he looked like. Fascinating brutal and told with a furious even poetic energy Alphaville stands shoulder to shoulder with other modern true crime classics such as Serpico The French Connection Wiseguy or David Simon's Homicide. "Nerve-shreddingly real. Addictive brilliant and compelling". (R.J. Ellory bestselling author of "A Simple Act of Violence").Read More