| Details | | Publication Date: | 1997-09-01 |
| Size | | Length: | 368 pages | | Height: | 9.8 in | | Width: | 6.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 27.2 oz |
Publisher's Note
A true chronicle of the inner workings of the deadly New York drug gang known as the Wild Cowboys. Robert Jackall manages to turn conventional wisdom about the drug trade upside down. A timely tale of self-destruction, madness, and highly ordered violence with something to shock everyone.
In this bloody urban saga, Robert Jackall recounts how street cops, detectives, and prosecutors pieced together a puzzle-like story of narcotics trafficking, money laundering, and murders for hire, all centered on a vicious gang of Dominican youths known as the Wild Cowboys. Jackall chronicles the crime-scene investigations, frantic car chases, street arrests at gunpoint, interviews with informants, and knuckle-breaking plea bargaining that culminated in prison terms for more than forty gang members. But he also tells a cautionary tale - one of a society with irreconcilable differences, fraught with self-doubt and moral ambivalence, where the institutional logics of law and bureaucracy often have perverse outcomes.
Industry Reviews
"Although [this book] provides some worthy insight into the workings of the police, prosecutors, and even street dealers, its deficient analysis and journalism prevent Jackall from providing credible insight into the larger context of police and prosecutorial practices, even as he attempts a polemic on that system's ills."
Del Negro
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