Serpico

Serpico, Frank,Maas, Peter

ISBN 10: 0061012149 / ISBN 13: 9780061012143

Verlag: HarperTorch, 1997

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Serpico
• Verlag: HarperTorch
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0061012149
• ISBN-13: 9780061012143
• Einband: Mass Market Paperback
• Zustand: Very Good

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THE CLASSIC TRUE STORY OF THE COP WHO COULDN'T BE BOUGHT

"I don't think anyone can come away from Serpico without admiration for one man's lonely integrity." —New York Times

With an Afterword by Frank Serpico

The 1960s was a time of social and generational upheaval felt with particular intensity in the melting pot of New York City. A culture of corruption pervaded the New York Police Department, where payoffs, protection, and shakedowns of gambling rackets and drug dealers were common practice. The so-called blue code of silence protected the minority of crooked cops from the sanction of the majority.

Into this maelstrom came a working class, Brooklyn-born, Italian cop with long hair, a beard, and a taste for opera and ballet. Frank Serpico was a man who couldn't be silenced—or bought—and he refused to go along with the system. He had sworn an oath to uphold the law, even if the perpetrators happened to be other cops. For this unwavering commitment to justice, Serpico nearly paid with his life.

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It is the late sixties, a time of intense social and generational upheaval. Into this maelstrom came a man who broke the mold. A working class, Brooklyn-born, Italian cop with long hair, a beard, and a taste for operaand ballet. Most of all, Frank Serpico was a man who couldn't be silenced -- or bought.

For years a culture of corruption had pervaded the New York City Police Department. Police payoffs, protection, and shakedowns of gambling rackets and drug dealers were common practice. The so-called bluecode of silence protected the minority of crooked cops from the sanction of the majority.