Birthday Party A Memoir of Survival

Name: Birthday Party A Memoir of Survival
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ISBN: 9780425219119

ISBN-10: 0425219119

ISBN-13: 9780425219119

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Authors: Stanley N. Alpert

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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,…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/2/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Stanley N. Alpert served for thirteen years with the U.S. Department of Justice, as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, where he was Chief of Environmental Litigation. There, Alpert investigated, prosecuted and supervised many complex civil and criminal cases, some resulting in multi-million-dollar awards. He now runs The Alpert Firm in New York City, where he lives.