The Birthday Party, Stanley N. Alpert
The Birthday Party, Stanley N. Alpert
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The Birthday Party
A Memoir of Survival

Author: Stanley N. Alpert

Narrator: Paul Michael Garcia

Unabridged: 10 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/01/2009


Synopsis

On January 21, 1998, the night before his thirtyeighth birthday, federal prosecutor Stanley Alpert was kidnapped by a car full of guntoting thugs. Hoping to make a large withdrawal with his ATM card, they took him, blindfolded, to a Brooklyn apartment, and improvised. All night, his captors alternately held guns to his head, threatened his family, engaged him in discussions of "gangsta" philosophy, sought his legal advice, and even offered him sexual favors from their prostitute girlfriends as a "birthday present." As Alpert talked with them, played on their attitudes and fears, and memorized every detail he could, his lawenforcement colleagues launched a major police and FBI investigation that would take many strange twists and turns. Filled with immediacy, drama, and extraordinary characters, The Birthday Party reads like a thrillerbut every word is true.

About Stanley N. Alpert

Stanley N. Alpert served for thirteen years with the US Department of Justice as an assistant US attorney for the eastern district of New York, where he was chief of environmental litigation. There, he investigated, prosecuted, or supervised many complex civil and criminal cases, some resulting in multimillion-dollar awards.


Reviews

This book chronicles the random abduction of the author, then a federal prosecutor, his nearly 24 hours with the men who abducted him and tried to steal his money, and the subsequent investigation and arrests of those men. The book is riveting, particularly in the first half when Alpert is with his......more

Goodreads review by Sara

An Assistant U.S. Attorney is kidnapped at gunpoint from the streets of Manhattan on his birthday. The kidnappers aren't sure what to do with him and how to drain his bank accounts without getting caught, so they hold him blindfolded for 26 hours in a dingy apartment with guns, drugs and prostitutes......more

The reason I gave this book 3 stars and not four was because I think he gave too many details of peoples lives that were irrelevant and made the story drag on.......more