Book description
In the early 1980s, a new scourge is unleashed upon an unsuspecting
America. Crack cocaine. The tenuous grip on law and order is finally
broken as organized gangs run amok. None of their leaders is more evil
than Lucia Carney whose drug empire grows and grows at the cost of
thousands of lives, many of them innocent ones. With the forces of law
and order incapable of breaking the gangs, a new type of enforcement is
required; a rogue force, outside the restrictions of the police code.
These men and women are called the Apaches. They have little left to
loose, having already lost their police badges as a result of the wounds
and disability sustained in the course of duty. They are the avenging
angels who will descend on Carney's empire and, irrespective of personal
cost, destroy it forever. Lorenzo Carcaterra was born in New York
where he still lives. He was a reporter on the
New York Daily News
before he wrote his first book of non-fiction, A Safe Place,
which recounts how he discovered, at the age of fourteen, that his
father had murdered his first wife. Sleepers,
which became a bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic, tells of the
abuse and torture he suffered in a boy's reformatory, and is now a major
Propaganda film.
