RICHARD ESPOSITO
Author
Publisher
CRIME INK
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
In a newspaper career spanning decades, Jimmy Breslin covered the stories that he knew mattered most: the human stories beyond the front page. From the JFK assassination, to the Son of Sam killings, mafia heists, the Crown Heights riots, and the Occupy movement, Breslin's influential columns captured the lifebeat of the second half of the twentieth century. A quintessential New Yorker, Breslin rubbed shoulders with world leaders and neighborhood arsonists,...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
An unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at the men who protect us from the most frightening prospect of life in the age of terrorism
The New York City Police Department Bomb Squad is the oldest such squad in the nation, founded in 1903. Each year its thirty-three members make more than two hundred stress-filled "bomb runs," in which they check suspicious briefcases, defuse hand grenades, and even respond to "art" projects constructed with real explosives....