The French connection : a true account of cops, narcotics, and international conspiracy

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Label

The French connection : a true account of cops, narcotics, and international conspiracy

Title remainder

a true account of cops, narcotics, and international conspiracy

Statement of responsibility

Robin Moore

Creator

• Moore, Robin, 1925-2008

Subject

• Drug control
• Drug control -- New York (State) | New York
• New York (N.Y.), Police Department
• New York (N.Y.), Police Department
• New York (State) -- New York

Language

eng

Summary

The true, absorbing and sometimes frightening documentary of the world's most successful narcotics investigation, The French Connection is one of the most fascinating crime accounts of our time. When New York City detectives Eddie "Popeye" Egan and his partner Sonny Grosso routinely tail Pasquale "Patsy" Fuca, after observing some wild spending at the Copacabana, they quickly realize that they are on to something really big. Patsy is not only the nephew of a mob boss on the lam but also a key negotiator in an impending delivery of narcotics from abroad. His incongruous connections are with several distinguished Frenchmen, including Jean Jehan, the director of the world's largest heroin network, and Jacques Angelvin, a star of French television. For many suspense-filled months, through opulent Manhattan nightclubs, dark tenements in Brooklyn and the Bronx, tree-lined streets of the genteel Upper East Side, and in Paris, Marseilles, and Palermo, the duel is on -- the prize 112 pounds of pure heroin, worth ninety million on the streets. Over three hundred investigators from local, state, federal, and international agencies are ultimately involved in the hours of weary surveillance, the skilled intuition, the luck -- both good and bad -- and the danger

Cataloging source

VHB

Dewey number

344

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

no index present

LC call number

HV5831.N7

LC item number

M63c

Literary form

non fiction