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The Birthday Party: A Memoir of Survival

By Stanley N. Alpert

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Year
2008
ISBN
1429577304, 9781101206706, 2006025430
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
591 kB (604839 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-10-01 14:23:16
BIO024000BIO026000Biography & AutobiographyNonfictionTRU003000True Crime

Description

On January 21, 1998, the night before his thirty-eighth birthday, federal prosecutor Stanley N. Alpert was kidnapped off the streets of Manhattan by a car full of gun-toting thugs looking to use his ATM card. He ended up blindfolded in a Brooklyn apartment as his captors changed their plans, alternately threatening him and his family, seeking legal advice, expounding on the "gangsta" life, and offering him the services of their prostitute girlfriends as a birthday present. All the while, Alpert, still blindfolded, talked with them, played on their attitudes and fears, and memorized every detail he could in the event that he ever managed to get out of there alive. Filled with immediacy, drama, and extraordinary characters, The Birthday Party reads like a thriller-but every word is true.

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