The Birthday Party Audiobook by Stanley N. Alpert

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/29/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Birthday Party Subtitle: A Memoir of Survival Author: Stanley N. Alpert Narrator: Paul Michael Garcia Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins Language: English Release date: 12-08-09 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 28 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs Publisher's Summary: On January 21, 1998, the night before his 38th birthday, federal prosecutor Stanley Alpert was kidnapped by a car full of gun-toting thugs. Hoping to make a large withdrawal with his ATM card, they took him, blindfolded, to a Brooklyn apartment, and improvised. All night, his captors alternately held guns to his head, threatened his family, engaged him in discussions of "gangsta" philosophy, sought his legal advice, and even offered him sexual favors from their prostitute girlfriends as a "birthday present". As Alpert talked with them, played on their attitudes and fears, and memorized every detail he could, his law-enforcement colleagues launched a major police and FBI investigation that would take many strange twists and turns. Filled with immediacy, drama, and extraordinary characters, The Birthday Party reads like a thriller - but every word is true. Critic Reviews: "One of the most exhilarating, improbable New York stories ever told." (The New York Times) "Harrowing....An effective, one-two punch of a memoir." (Booklist)