- Investigative reporting, Police corruption, Press coverage, Case studies
The shocking true story of the biggest police corruption scandal in Philadelphia history, a tale of drugs, power, and abuse involving a rogue narcotics squad, a confidential informant, and two veteran journalists whose reporting drove a full-scale FBI probe, rocked the City of Brotherly Love, and earned a Pulitzer Prize.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and contemporary.
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- Author
- Barbara Laker
- First published
- 2014
- Pages
- 242
- Publisher
- HarperCollins, HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780062085450
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