Alphaville

New York, 1988: Welcome to Heroin City

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  • Welcome
  • to
  • Alphabet
  • City,
  • Manhattan's
  • most
  • crime-ridden
  • neighbourhood
  • with
  • murder,
  • rape
  • and
  • violence
  • hitting
  • record
  • levels
  • the
  • streets,
  • fuelled
  • by
  • a
  • drug
  • problem
  • that's
  • got
  • the
  • city
  • by
  • the
  • throat.
  • It
  • was
  • into
  • this
  • vision
  • of
  • hell
  • that
  • Mike
  • Codella
  • and
  • his
  • partner
  • Gio
  • stepped
  • in
  • 1988,
  • two
  • plainclothes
  • narcs
  • expected
  • just
  • to
  • pull
  • a
  • few
  • street
  • arrests
  • to
  • keep
  • statistics
  • looking
  • good,
  • and
  • try
  • to
  • get
  • out
  • alive.
  • But
  • Mike
  • had
  • his
  • eyes
  • on
  • something
  • bigger.
  • Davey
  • Blue
  • Eyes:
  • local
  • kingpin,
  • druglord
  • and
  • stone
  • cold
  • murderer.
  • Just
  • one
  • drawback
  • -
  • no
  • one
  • even
  • knew
  • what
  • he
  • looked
  • like.
  • Fascinating,
  • brutal
  • and
  • told
  • with
  • a
  • furious,
  • even
  • poetic
  • energy,
  • Alphaville
  • stands
  • shoulder
  • to
  • shoulder
  • with
  • other
  • modern
  • true
  • crime
  • classics
  • such
  • as
  • Serpico,
  • The
  • French
  • Connection,
  • Wiseguy,
  • or
  • David
  • Simon's
  • Homicide.'Nerve-shreddingly
  • real.
  • Addictive,
  • brilliant
  • and
  • compelling'
  • R.J.
  • Ellory,
  • bestselling
  • author
  • of
  • A
  • Simple
  • Act
  • of Violence
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