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by Robert K. Tanenbaum (Author), Philip Rosenberg (Author) "WAVERLY JONES WAS DEAD BEFORE HE HIT the sidewalk, the bullets tracing a neat line straight down his back as though someone had been trying..." (more)
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Los Angeles TimesExcellent, tautly written.

The New York TimesEngrossing....The incredible story of a hit squad sent to kill cops....The accounts of the two murder trials in New York...and an intervening chase down to a remote farm in Mississippi...are almost as suspenseful as the stalking and capture of the killers.

Library JournalArtfully recreated.

San Francisco ChronicleA thriller of a book!

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A blood-chilling true-crime account from former district attorney and New York Times bestselling author Robert K. Tanenbaum

BADGE OF THE ASSASSIN

They were just doing their jobs -- serving and protecting -- when the unimaginable happened: Officers Waverly Jones and Joseph Piagentini became moving targets, ambushed from behind at a Manhattan housing project. Jones lay dead in a pool of his own blood, and Piagentini lived long enough to beg for his life -- before he was riddled with twenty-two bullet holes by members of a deadly hit squad hell-bent on taking out the men and women of law enforcement.

Masterfully building suspense on every page, Robert K. Tanenbaum reconstructs the vicious murders of Jones and Piagentini and the manhunt for the suspects, and brings to life his courtroom prosecution of the killers -- revealing the triumphs and failures of America's legal system.

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1.0 out of 5 stars THIS IS TANENBAUM?, Mar 23 2000
By "wretched-jonah" (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Badge Of The Assassin (Paperback)
This book simply lacks the psychological depth of the Karp novels, which I have read every one of. This leads me to believe that Mr. Tanenbaum employs the service of an excellent ghost writer, although we may never know...
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1.0 out of 5 stars Self Serving Inaccuracy, Oct 20 1999
By Neil Batelli, ABCF (Paterson, NJ) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Badge Of The Assassin (Paperback)
Being somewhat familiar with the case of the so-called "cop-killers" Tanenbaum prosecuted and eventually wrote about, I had to read this book. Though I found the book to be filled with numerous self serving inaccuracies and half truths, I was glad to have read it. The New York Three, who are; Jalil Muntaqim (Tony Bottom), Albert "Nuh" Washington and Herman Bell, are not the cop killing trio you will read about. Nor was the Black Liberation Army, the group to which they belonged, a gang of murderers as it is portrayed in this "book". The real thugs and criminals were the government and its Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) which routinely harassed, falsely imprisoned and even murdered members of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army (among others). The case of Dhoruba Bin Wahad (Richard Moore) and Geronimo ji-jaga (Elmer Pratt) are prime examples of this. Each of them were Black Panther and Black Liberation Army members and were released after 19 and 29 years of false imprisonment, after being able to prove their innocence and the government frame up in cases much like the one written of by Mr. Taaenbaum. In fact, Dhoruba's case was cited in the "Badge of the Assassin" and was portrayed as being guilty. It took 19 years to proove him wrong. Yet, if you were to read the court transcripts, you may have falsely locked them up yourself. Likewise in "Badge of the Assassin." The way it reads you may feel they were the killers. What the book leaves out and what was kept from their trials was the evidence of police and government cover/frame-up. Evidence that when the defense got too close to revealing was conveniently "lost" by the feds and police. It's long time the New York Three were set free as Dhoruba and Geronimo were. Maybe this will help open a door exposing one of America's best kept secrets, political prisoners exist in the USA. Albert Washington, Herman Bell and Jalil Muntaqim are only three out of many dozens. For more information on these and other COINTELPRO cases read "Still Black Still Strong", "Agents of Repression" and "Assata". This would only be for starters.
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5.0 out of 5 stars "A compelling drama about back-shooting cop-killers!, Oct 19 1997
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Two NYC Patrolmen, Waverly Jones and Joseph Piagentini, are visciously ambushed on the night of 21 May, 1971. Who killed them and why? This book delves into those questions and more as the prosecutor who handled the case tells, in vivid and amazing detail, of the assassination, investigation, capture, and trial of the accused cop-killers. A must-read for everybody who knows what justice is, and for those who have yet to find out.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great law-mystery book.
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