French Connection Blues: Memoirs of a Narc
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (583 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0991286642 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-03 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Confirmation of corruption The story is simple -- a man who just wants to live his life is finally forced to confront the criminal actions of the people around him, putting him in conflict with not only tradition but his own sense of obligation and fear that he is betraying everything he was brought up to believe in.The book follows the life of Pete Bono, an imaginative kid who wanted a nice easy job with a pension, but who seemed destined to drift into becoming another "made guy"until he became a cop.
Everything was kept in the Property Room on Broome Street, and over the space of a few years, almost all of the drugs confiscated and held there were stolen, including those from The French Connection. When Pete Bono became a New York City Police Officer, he found himself faced with a harrowing choice - either he honored the oath he swore to the brotherhood of cops and protected the "Thin Blue Line", or he confronted fellow officers who crossed the lineand risked losing everything. Some members of the unit used illegal wiretaps to obtain information on big-time drug dealers then, using t