num_pages: 314
description: The novelisation of a film set in the 1970s, which tells of how Patrolman Frank Serpico spent five lonely years, despite threats from his fellow officers, fighting a fruitless battle against police corruption, until finally, in despair and frustration, he decided to take the final step. Reissued for the BLOOMSBURY FILM CLASSICS series.
language: English
title: Serpico
titlecomplete: Serpico
characters: Frank Serpico, American Law Enforcement
genres: Biography, True Crime, Media Tie In, History, Police, Crime, New York, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Memoir
ratings_count: 3345
places: Upper East Side, New York City, New York
publisher: Viking