The Sixties Catalogue

55 J u l y 2 0 2 0 “5 Years & 1 Day Apart But You Finally Got Us Both To Sign” 53. MOORE, Robin. The French Connection. Boston, 1969. Octavo, original blue and red paper boards, dust jacket. $950. Click for more info First edition of this gripping photo-illustrated non-fiction account of the “world’s most successful narcotics investigation,” warmly inscribed by the two NYC police officers, Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso, whose lives were the subject of this book: “1/19/83. To Art, Thank you for all your help in my new career following this book. Your friend, Popeye Egan” and “1/20/88. To Art, 5 years & 1 day apart but you finally got us both to sign, now you got nothing to wait for. Thankx for all your support. Your Pal, Sonny.” “The author has probably told the world far more than the P.R. departments of the N.Y.C. Police or the F.B.I. would care to have known. In detailing the 1962 case and all the hard and patient work that went into pulling in the people responsible for the biggest (@ 112 lbs.) shipment of pure heroin to the U.S. and recovering the heroin too, some of the sloppiest inter-agency coordination (or lack thereof) is also revealed” ( Kirkus ). Book fine, dust jacket extremely good with a bit of wear. A desirable inscribed copy. “Get your hands on your heads, get off the bar, and get on the wall!”