Wild Cowboys: Urban Marauders and the Forces of Order

Bullet-torn bodies in a South Bronx alley, a college boy shot in the head on the West Side Highway and a wild shootout in the streets of Washington Heights, home of New York's immigrant Dominican community and hub of the eastern seaboard's drug trade. All seemingly separate acts of violence. But investigators discover a pattern to the mayhem. In this bloody urban saga, Jackall recounts how street cops, detectives and prosecutors pieced together a puzzle-like story of narcotics trafficking, money laundering and murders, all centered on a gang of Dominican youths known as the Wild Cowboys. These boyhood friends ran a crack business and routinely shot rivals and shot or slashed witnesses to their crimes, eventually turning on one another.