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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"There was a time when New York City was dying a fast death. The slums were warzones, the government bankrupt and sputtering. Mobsters disassembled one another nightly and dropped hefty bags off the Canarsie pier. Drug use was rampant, supplied by the most efficient black market since prohibition. Gangs rumbled in the city's playgrounds, each battle busted up by the sound of gunfire or a police siren. Co-eds from out of town were raped and sent home...
7) Son of Sam
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Recounts the late '70s in New York City, when a serial killer on the loose dubbed 'Son of Sam" created havoc.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"Just outside the mesmerizing glint of the disco ball, the seventies seem like a time of madness: war raged in Southeast Asia, America's president was crooked, Olympic athletes were slain, cult members drank poisoned punch, and the Son of Sam stalked the night. It was, in retrospect, a terrifying time only slightly ameliorated by the distractions of a decadent nightlife culture and over-the-top pop icons"--Container.
10) Summer of Sam
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1977, a group of friends in a New York City Italian neighborhood becomes convinced that the infamous killer, Son of Sam, is someone who lives near them. This, plus the heat, looting, blackouts, and the murders themselves cause the falling apart of relationships and the beginning of mistrust and dread for the friends.
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1977 in New York City, a man called the Son of Sam commits numerous murders. As friends in a small Italian neighborhood become obsessed with the idea that the Son of Sam is someone nearby, the madman's plague of terror becomes the catalyst that prompts relationships to fall apart and trust to disintegrate into dread.
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