90 Church
Inside America's Notorious First Narcotics Squad
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Narrated by:
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Keith Szarabajka
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Written by:
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Agent Dean Unkefer
About this listen
Mad Men meets The Wire in this gripping true-crime memoir by a former agent at the Federal Bureau of Narcotics in 1960s New York.
Before Nixon famously declared a "war on drugs", there was the Federal Bureau of Narcotics.
New York City, mid-1960s. The war in Vietnam was on the nation's tongue - but so was something else. Clandestine and chaotic but equally ruthless, the agents of the bureau were feared by the Mafia, dealers, pimps, prostitutes - anyone who did his or her business on the streets. With few rules and almost no oversight, the battle-hardened agents of the bureau were often more vicious than the criminals they chased.
Agent Dean Unkefer was a naïve kid with notions of justice and fair play when he joined up. But all that quickly changed once he got thrown into the lion's den of 90 Church, the headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, where he was shocked to see the agents he revered were often more like thugs than lawmen.
When he finally got the chance to prove his mettle by going undercover in the field, the lines became increasingly blurred. As he spiraled into the hell of addiction and watched his life become a complex balancing act of lies and half truths, he began to wonder what side he was really on.
90 Church is both the unbelievable memoir of one man's confrontation with the dark corners of the human experience and a fascinating window into a little-known time in American history. Learn the story of the agents who make the DEA look like choirboys.
©2013 Dean Unkefer (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publisher's Summary
What do you call a thug with the legal power to do almost anything they please? If you were living in New York City in the 1960s, you would call them a narcotics officer. 90 Church is the gripping true crime memoir of former Federal Bureau of Narcotics Agent Dean Unkefer.
In 1960s New York City, the world was a very different place. 90 Church: The True Story of the Narcotics Squad from Hell gives us a shocking look at New York’s Federal Bureau of Narcotics at this time and place in history. You’ll be on the edge of your seat as you hear Agent Dean Unkefer’s tale of wanting to be one of the good guys who tried to do his part to clean up the streets of New York, only to unwittingly find himself working for one of the most significant and most ruthless gangs in the city: the FBN.
Narrator Keith Szarabajka helps to provide a first-person account of Agent Dean Unkefer’s life as a federal agent. The story takes us from his first days as a young agent walking into the building on 90 Church St and joining the FBN to seeing himself become more like the drug dealers and Mafia figures he intended to put away. Follow along as Dean sinks deeper into the same abyss that swallowed many of his fellow agents.
90 Church is a great audiobook that can sometimes be maddening, as you’ll hear of the law enforcement officers who were little more than criminals with badges. Many of them provided the blueprint for how not to handle the eventual war on drugs. As we go deeper inside America’s notorious first narcotics squad, you’ll see why the team housed at 90 Church Street was the rot at the core of the Big Apple. It’s a wonder former Agent Dean Unkefer could make it out alive.
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- Craig
- 2024-10-29
A story of life on the edge in law enforcement
An amazing story I don't have the words to describe it! The performance was equally great!
Best Audible purchase so far!
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