Dean Unkefer

90 Church: Inside America S Notorious First Narcotics Squad Dean Unkefer

Publisher Marketing:"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 naive 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." Review Citations: Booklist 04/15/2015 pg. 4 (EAN 9781250067340, Other) Publishers Weekly 03/16/2015 (EAN 9781250067333, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2015 (EAN 9781250067333, Hardcover) Booklist 04/15/2015 pg. 4 (EAN 9781250067333, Hardcover) Library Journal 05/01/2015 pg. 87 (EAN 9781250067333, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Unkefer, Dean DEAN UNKEFER is a former agent with the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Contributor Bio:  Szarabajka, Keith Keith Szarabajka has appeared in many films, including The Dark Knight, Missing, and A Perfect World, and on such television shows as The Equalizer, Angel, Cold Case, Golden Years, and Profit. Szarabajka has also appeared in several episodes of Selected Stories for National Public Radio. He won the 2001 AudieAward for Unabridged Fiction for his reading of Tom Robbins Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates.