A blood-chilling true-crime account from former district attorney and New York Times bestselling author Robert K. TanenbaumBADGE 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.
- ISBN10 1451604130
- ISBN13 9781451604139
- Publish Date 15 June 2010 (first published 15 May 1979)
- Publish Status Active
- Publisher Simon & Schuster
- Imprint Pocket Books
- Format eBook
- Language English