Prince of the City: The True Story of a Cop Who Knew Too Much

This is a dazzling work of nonfiction that traces the story of Robert Leuci, a young detective with the New York City Police Department who came to a crossroads in his life and found himself confronted with whom he had become and, apparently, did not like what he saw. As a team leader in the elite and now defunct Special Investigations Unit (SIU) of the Narcotics division during the late nineteen sixties and early seventies,... Read Full Review

The true story of a cop who knew too much. 1978 hardcover. 311 page published by Houghton Mifflin Company. Author's note: All of the events depicted in this book are a matter of factual record, and the people are real. No names have been chenged. The dialogue has either been taken from concealed tape recordings made at the time the events took place or been carefully reconstructed through interviews with the participants... Read Full Review

Prince Of The City: The True Story Of A Cop Who Knew Too Much is the dramatic true story of Detective Robert Leuci, a deep cover sleuth who assembled corruption cases against lawyers, bail bondsmen, mob figures, and even some of his own, putting his own life in peril for the sake of law and justice. Written in the style of a novel, Prince Of The City offers an unflinchingly honest portrait of the rigors of policework, the... Read Full Review

This non-fiction book is better than anything any screenwriter or novelist could ever come up with. The characters are so vivid and the story so tense and so heartbreaking that as you get towards the end of the book you won't know where to turn or who to feel sorry for.You want to know what goes on inside a cop's head? Read this...then see the movie, just as good.