Set Up - The Shocking Aftermath to the French Connection

Informationen zum Autor ROBIN MOORE-a B-17 nose gunner in WW II! at the age of nineteen-survived Europe to resume his education and graduated from Harvard in 1949. First published in 1956! he has written more than two dozen major books including his best-selling account of training and fighting with special forces in Vietnam! The Green Berets and The Hunt for Bin Laden: Task Force Dagger! also about U.S. special forces. He lives in Concord! Massachusetts. MILT MACHLIN served in the Pacific theater during World War II. He graduated from Brown University and attended the Sorbonne! studying in the Coeur de Civilization. He was the editor of Argosy magazine and the author of numerous books! fiction and nonfiction! including Ninth Life! Libby! The Search For Michael Rockefeller! Joshua's Altar; The Dig at Mount Ebal! Atlanta! Pipeline! The Worldshakers! Strangers in the Land! Gossip Wars! and The Family Man! also with Robin Moore. He received an Edgar Allen Poe Special Award from the Mystery Writers of America for The Set Up. Machlin was a native of New York City; he died April 3! 2004. Klappentext With a new introduction by Robin Moore! The Set Up is a true-crime thriller! lightly fictionalized to protect the innocent! that follows the trail of the heroin seized by the New York City police-as documented in The French Connection-and subsequently stolen from the police vault. Zusammenfassung With a new introduction by Robin Moore! The Set Up is a true-crime thriller! lightly fictionalized to protect the innocent! that follows the trail of the heroin seized by the New York City police-as documented in The French Connection-and subsequently stolen from the police vault.

Product details

• Authors: Milt Machlin, Milt Moore Machlin, Machlin Milt, Robin Moore, Robin Machlin Moore
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2004
• EAN: 9781592283712
• ISBN: 978-1-59228-371-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; True Crime, TRUE CRIME / Murder / General