Ethan Brown, Author . Anchor $13 (239p) ISBN 978-1-4000-9523-0
This engrossing portrait of the trigger-happy hip-hop demimonde explores the origins of the gangsta-rap ethos in southeast Queens, home to legendary narcotics gangs and many of rap's biggest stars, including 50 Cent and Ja Rule. New York ...
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Ethan Brown, Author . Public Affairs $25.95 (273p) ISBN 978-1-58648-492-7
Brown (Queens Reigns Supreme
) presents the case that harsh minimum sentencing laws have led federal prosecutors to rely too much on unreliable informants and cooperators, and too little on solid investigative work; the sentences are also, he argues,
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Ethan Brown, Author . Holt $25 (286p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8893-9
On October 17, 2006, 28-year-old Iraq war veteran Zackery Bowen leapt to his death from a New Orleans hotel roof, leaving a suicide note directing police to the dismembered body of his girlfriend, Addie Hall. In journalist Brown’s (Snitch
)...
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Ethan Brown. Scribner, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4767-9325-2
Brown (Shake the Devil Off: A True Story of the Murder that Rocked New Orleans) has crafted a gripping narrative that will revive curiosity about eight unsolved murders that had at one time been front-page news in the New York Times. Between 2005...
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