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Wild Cowboys : Urban Marauders the Forces of Order
Wild Cowboys Urban Marauders the Forces of Order Author:Robert Jackall 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. These boyhood friends, operators of a lucrative crack business in the B... more »ronx, routinely pistol-whipped their workers, murdered rivals, shot witnesses to their crimes, and eventually turned on one another in a deadly civil war. "This book makes a brutal and, for most readers, extremely foreign world seem discomfitingly close." —Publishers Weekly "This book is a fly-on-the-wall look at how the 'forces of order' think and go about eradicating the opposition … Jackall is at his best when he fleshes out how police detectives single-mindedly overcame dead-end leads, sidestepped or neutralized competing units within the ranks of the police bureaucracy and parlayed fragments of accurate information to solve several particularly vicious pieces of Wild Cowboy handiwork … Anyone interested in the techniques of criminal investigation could not find a more comprehensive and readable primer." —Alan Mass, New York Law Journal« less