Blood and the Badge: The Mafia, Two Killer Cops, and a Scandal That Shocked the Nation

by Michael Cannell

For the first time in forty years, former New York Times editor Michael Cannell unearths the full story behind two ruthless New York cops who acted as double agents for the Mafia.

No episode in NYPD history surpasses the depravities of Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, two decorated detectives who covertly acted as mafia informants and paid assassins in the Scorsese world of 1980s Brooklyn.

For more than ten years,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250817781
• ISBN13: 9781250817785
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"