by Tommy Dades
David Fisher would like to acknowledge the following people:
I would like to thank our editor, Mauro DiPreta, for his confidence, his persistance, and his efforts to make this the best possible telling of the worst crimes in NYPD history. I would also like to thank my friends Penny Farber and Jerry Stern for the use of their cyberspace, as well as Frank Biondo, Bart Reich, and Joe Maresca, my friends of a lifetime. I would like to thank our agents, Frank Weimann of the Literary Group and Peter Sawyer, for their efforts and their expertise. I also would like to thank Chief Joe Ponzi for his enthusiasm, his time, and his efforts to tell this story as accurately as possible. I would like to thank Patty Lanigan, George Terra, Josh Hanshaft, and those people I can’t name who gave graciously of their time. I’d like to tell my sons, Jesse and Beau Stevens, how much I love them and appreciate their understanding of me. As always, I would like to thank Suzanne Copitzky and her staff at the Karmen Executive Center of Seattle, Washington, for their continued hard work and good humor. And I would like to add that working with Mike Vecchione and Tommy Dades, two of the most dedicated public servants I’ve ever met and two men I admire greatly, has been a great pleasure.
And last on the page, but first in my life, I would like to acknowledge my wife, Laura Stevens, who brightens my life with her endless support and enthusiasm. I am so lucky to have found her.
About the Authors
TOMMY DADES is now retired from the NYPD and teaches boxing to children.
MICHAEL VECCHIONE is in charge of the Rackets Division of the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office.
DAVID FISHER is the author of more than fifteen New York Times bestsellers.
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Credits
Jacket design by Brad Foltz
Jacket photograph of gun and badge by Paul Katz/Getty Images;
Stephen Caracappa by Louis Lanzano/AP Images;
Louis Eppolito by Louis Lanzano/AP Images
Copyright
FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY. Copyright © 2009 by Tommy Dades, Michael Vecchione, and David Fisher. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Adobe Digital Edition April 2009 ISBN 978-0-06-187632-5
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