Michael Codella was a New York City cop for twenty years. He worked and supervised in the DEA, Secret Service Task Force, Special Frauds Squad, Missing Persons Squad, Operation 8, and several other outstanding and prestigious units throughout the city. He retired from the NYPD in 2003 as a detective sergeant. He now divides his time between television and film work, being a professional fight trainer, and running his Renzo Gracie Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu academy with his family.
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A raw, gritty memoir—part true-life cop thriller, part unputdownable history of a storied time and place—that will grip you by the throat until the explosive end In 1988, Alphabet City burned with heroin, radicalism, and antipolice sentimen... SEE MORE