num_pages: 496
description: T.J. English has the mastered the hybrid narrative art form of social history and underworld thriller. The Savage City is a truly gripping read filled with unexpected twists and turns.Douglas Brinkley author of The Great DelugeIn The Savage City T.J. English author of the New York Times bestselling blockbuster Havana Nocturne takes readers back to a frightening place in a dark time of violence and urban chaos: New York City in the 1960s and early 70s. As he did in his acclaimed true crime masterwork The Westies English focuses on the rot on the Big Apple in this stunning tale of race murder and a generation on the edgeas he interweaves the real-life sagas of a corrupt cop a militant Black Panther and an innocent young African American man framed by the NYPD for a series of crimes including a brutal and sensational double murder.
language: English
title: The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge
publisher: William Morrow