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Gangbusters

How a Street Tough, Elite Homicide Unit Took Down New York's Most Dangerous Gang

By: Michael Stone

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Paperback | 9 July 2002 | Edition Number 1

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The book opens with the shocking and senseless execution of a Tarrytown college boy on the West Side Highway. Over time, the case leads detectives to the Wild Cowboys, a drug gang whose size and penchant for violence and intimidation have terrorized the South Bronx and upper Manhattan for years. HIU's attempts to bring down the Wild Cowboys' ruthless leader, Lenny, and feared enforcers, Platano and Pasqualito, triggermen for scores of the gang's murders, posed challenges that would test the unit's very survival. But HIU's dedicated collaboration of prosecutors and detectives and the strategies Arsenault employed in the unit's investigation have since become a model for gang enforcement in cities around the world. In the end, the Wild Cowboys and their allies were responsible for more than sixty murders.

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"Chilling in its penetrating detail."-New York Daily News

"Compelling and, at times, disturbing.... With each turn of the page, Gangbusters draws you into a dangerous world."-Former New York City Police Commissioner William J. Bratton, in The New York Observer

"Plenty of nail-biting moments.... Free of melodrama, Gangbusters is solid cops-and-robbers stuff."-The New York Post

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Death on the Highway	p. 1
The Homicide Investigation Unit	p. 20
The Wild Cowboys	p. 44
The Search for Platano	p. 71
Joining Forces	p. 79
War	p. 92
Catching a Break	p. 108
Bumps in the Road	p. 118
Lenny	p. 130
Point, Counterpoint	p. 147
Losing Ground	p. 159
The Informer	p. 171
Collared	p. 188
Dissension	p. 201
The Blowup	p. 212
Takedown	p. 225
Back on Track	p. 236
Breakthrough	p. 249
The Trial Begins	p. 266
The Turning Point	p. 283
Verdict	p. 304
Epilogue	p. 321
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Gangbusters

How a Street Tough, Elite Homicide Unit Took Down New York's Most Dangerous Gang

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