The French Connection: The World's Most Crucial Narcotics Investigation by Robin Moore [1972 PAPERBACK] Bantam • Movie Tie-in

The French Connection: The World's Most Crucial Narcotics Investigation by Robin Moore

VINTAGE PAPERBACK [1972] BANTAM BOOKS

1972 printing w/ Friedkin film tie-in cover.

Perfect vintage reading copy w/ some visible wear to cover and tanning to pages.  Otherwise, clean tight and square copy that reads perfectly well. 

The true, absorbing and sometimes frightening documentary of the world's most successful narcotics investigation, The French Connection is one of the most fascinating crime accounts of our time; inspiring the hit motion picture starring Gene Hackman.

When New York City detectives Eddie "Popeye" Egan and his partner Sonny Grosso routinely tail Pasquale "Patsy" Fuca, after observing some wild spending at the Copacabana, they quickly realize that they are onto something really big. Patsy is not only the nephew of a mob boss on the lam but also a key negotiator in an impending delivery of narcotics from abroad. His incongruous connections are with several distinguished Frenchmen, including Jean Jehan, the director of the world's largest heroin network, and Jacques Angelvin, a star of French television.

For many suspense-filled months, through opulent Manhattan nightclubs, dark tenements in Brooklyn and the Bronx, tree-lined streets of the genteel Upper East Side, and in Paris, Marseilles, and Palermo, the duel is on -- the prize 112 pounds of pure heroin, worth ninety million on the streets. Over three hundred investigators from local, state, federal, and international agencies are ultimately involved in the hours of weary surveillance, the skilled intuition, the luck -- both good and bad -- and the danger.