Circle of Six: New York's Most Notorious Cop Killer and the Cop Who Risked Everything to Catch Him

✍ Scribed by Jurgensen, Randy; Cea, Robert

• Book ID: 108128326
• Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser Conari
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 3 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781932857856

✦ Synopsis

Circle of Six is the true story of what is perhaps the most notorious case in the history of the New York Police Department. It details Randy Jurgensen's determined effort to bring to justice the murderer of Patrolman Phillip Cardillo, who was shot and killed inside Harlem's Mosque #7 in 1972, in the midst of an all-out assault on the NYPD from the Black Liberation Army. The New York of this era was a place not unlike the Wild West, in which cops and criminals shot it out on a daily basis.

Despite the mayhem on the streets and the Machiavellian corridors of Mayor Lindsay's City Hall, Detective Jurgensen single-handedly took on the Black Liberation Army, the Nation of Islam, NYPD brass, and City Hall, capturing Cardillo's killer, Lewis 17X Dupree. He broke the case with an unlikely accomplice, Foster 2X Thomas, a member of the Nation of Islam who became Jurgensen's witness. The relationship they formed during the time before trial gave each of the two men a greater...