Michael Cannell-BLOOD AND THE BADGE The Mafia, Two Killer Cops, and a Scandal That Shocked the Nation

Through the 1970s and 1980s Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa served in the NYPD, rising through the ranks, each becoming decorated detectives. They are also responsible for what may qualify as the department’s darkest chapter. For years the two cops operated not only as paid informantsfor the Lucchese organized crime family, but served as mob henchmen, committed a multitude of crimes and were involved in at least twelve murders.  And they came remarkably close to getting away with all of it. MichaelCannell, a former editor at the New York Times andauthor of the critically acclaimed A Brotherhood Betrayed, now has written the definitive account of the crooked cops’ escapades and the trail of terror they left—which included the deaths and wrongful imprisonment ofwholly innocent people.