Title Profile & Character Information

Undercover Cop
Annotation
One moment, New Jersey state trooper Mike Russell was working undercover hoping to infiltrate a Mafia family. The next, he was lying facedown in an alley, shot in the back of the head. Miraculously surviving, Russell maintained his cover and soon had a stroke of luck when he saved a captain of the Genovese crime family from two street thugs. With the trust of his new friend, Russell orchestrated one of the biggest Mafia takedowns of all time.
GenreNonFiction
Sociological
True crime
Memoir
TopicsPolice
Undercover investigations
Organized crime
Mafia
Mobsters
Criminology
SettingNewark, New Jersey