Satan's Circus: Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York's Trial of the Century

Dash, Mike

ISBN 10: 1400054710 / ISBN 13: 9781400054718

Verlag: Crown, 2007

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A meticulously detailed chronicle of corruption, intrigue, and crime documents the life and times of NYPD officer Charley Becker, his involvement in the graft and corruption that was the norm in midtown Manhattan's Satan's Circus region, and his arrest, trial, conviction, and execution for the killing of a casino owner who threatened to expose him. 50,000 first printing.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Mike Dash is the New York Times bestselling author of Tulipomania and Batavia’s Graveyard. He read history at the University of Cambridge and worked for some years as a magazine publisher before becoming a full-time writer. Dash lives with his wife and daughter in London, where he researches in the British Library and writes regularly for the English national press

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Titel: Satan's Circus: Murder, Vice, Police ...
Verlag: Crown
Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: good