The bestselling book and acclaimed film Prince of the City told only part of Robert Leuci's story. In All the Centurions, he shares the full account of his years as a narcotics detective with the New York Police Department -- a tale of daring adventure, shattered illusions, and finally, astonishing spiritual growth.
Leuci reminisces about cops both celebrated and notorious, like Frank Serpico, Sonny Grosso, and Frank King from the French Connection case. Also here are politicians, Mafia figures, corrupt defense lawyers, and district attorneys, including a young Rudolph Giuliani. Leuci reveals the dark side of the criminal justice system: the bitterness, greed, cruelty, and ambition that eventually overflowed into the streets, precinct houses, and courtrooms of the city.
As vivid and entertaining as the best crime novels, All the Centurions is the story of a man descending into a hell of his own making who ultimately finds his way out through truth and justice.

All the Centurions

Biographies & Memoirs

Leuci, Robert

Historical

William Morrow Paperbacks

When a confrontation brews between two decent men, aloof New York detective Nick Manaris and Diego Cienfuego, a Cuban immigrant and single father of three who is working for a cousin involved with criminals, the results are tragic and far-reaching.

Snitch

Literature & Fiction

United States

St.Martin's Press

A rising star in the NYPD, police captain Nora Riter is smart, strongwilled, and beautiful -- with a private life that threatens to torpedo her career. A streetwise actor/conman, Nicky Ossman faces a stretch in prison for assaulting a vice officer. Nora needs Nicky to help her re-establish personal and professional control, as she takes on a case that's leading her to the meanest of Brooklyn's streets. And Nicky has no choice but to go along, joining Nora Riter in a very dangerous game that is about to ensnare them in a wide net of secrecy, lies, and betrayal cast out from the top levels of the department -- as they conspire to end the reign of Red Hook's most feared criminal: a loan shark, sadist, and pathological killer in steel-tipped boots; an untouchable madman called Blaze.

Blaze

AVON.

A police captain and lead investigator for the chief of New York's detectives, Nora Riter is smart, strong-willed, and beautiful--a rising star. But her personal life is threatening to send her career into a nosedive. Struggling to reestablish controlboth professionally and personally-she takes on a case that leads her to the meanest of Brooklyn's streets, the domain of Blaze Longo, a Red Hook loan shark and pathological killer in steel-toed boots. Longo's reputation for cruelty and sadistic behavior strikes terror in the hearts of even the most hardened tough guys. Up until now, he has remained untouchable. But Blaze has never encountered the like of Captain Nora Riter.
But she needs help, and it's coming in the form of a most unlikely ally: good-looking sometime actor, always streetwise Nicky the Hawk Ossman. Ossman knows Brooklyn's Red Hook better than anyone and he has good reasons to want the psychopathic Blaze oft the streets. There's Nicky's adopted sevenyear-old son, Tino, and a light-headed prostitute cousin named Irma, both of whom share Nicky's life-and neither can make it through this life without him. Therefore, a stretch in prison for assaulting a vice cop--a very real prospect proposed to him by a determined Nora Riter-is unthinkable. So he agrees to go undercover to nail the madman Blaze.
Stalking Longo is perilous work, and Nicky soon wants out. Nora, however, wants Longo in the worst way. Circumstance has thrown Nora and Nicky together in this very dangerous game, which is smelling increasingly of secrecy, lies, and betrayal emanating from the top levels of the department. But they can survive the coming conflagration if they are willing to break all their own rules. There is one busted commandment, however, that could cost them everything: the unwritten law that says a cop and her informant must never get romantically involved.A police captain and lead investigator for the chief of New York's detectives, Nora Riter is smart, strong-willed, and beautiful-a rising star. But her personal life is threatening to send her career into a nosedive. Struggling to reestablish control-both professionally and personally-she takes on a case that leads her to the meanest of Brooklyn's streets, the domain of Blaze Longo, a Red Hook loan shark and pathological killer in steel-toed boots. Longo's reputation for cruelty and sadistic behavior strikes terror in the heads of even the most hardened tough guys. Up until now, he has remained untouchable. But Blaze has never encountered the like of Captain Nora Riter.But she needs help, and it's coming in the form of a most unlikely ally: good-looking sometime actor, always streetwise Nicky the Hawk Ossman. Ossman knows Brooklyn's Red Hook better than anyone and he has good reasons to want the psychopathic Blaze off the streets. There's Nicky's adopted seven-year-old son, Tino, and a light-headed prostitute cousin named Irma, both of whom share Nicky's life-and neither can make it through this life without him. Therefore, a stretch in prison for assaulting a vice cop-a very real proposed to him by a determined Nora Riter-is unthinkable. So he agrees to go undercover to nail the madman Blaze.
Stalking Longo is perilous work, and Nicky soon wants out. Nora, however, wants Longo in the worst way. Circumstance has thrown Nora and Nicky together in this very dangerous game, which is smelling increasingly of secrecy, lies, and betrayal emanating from the top levels of the department. But they can survive the coming conflation if they are willing to break all their own rules. There is one busted commandment, however, that could cost them everything: the unwritten law that says a co and her informant must never get romantically involved.

William Morrow

His story was told in the bestseller and acclaimed film Prince of the City. He was a detective in the narcotics division of the New York City Police Department during the 1960s and 1970s -- its most explosive and dramatic decades. His name is Robert Leuci, and now he is telling his own story.
All the Centurions is Leuci's accurately and sometimes mercilessly remembered account of young manhood -- a tale filled with dreadful and daring adventures on the streets and in the courthouses of New York City. Leuci takes us into the world of the New York City Police Department at a time when the city was crumbling under its own weight, drugs were taking over the poorer neighborhoods, and crime was rampant on the streets and subways. But this is also a story of shattered illusions and personal loss, of endurance and healing, and, finally, of astonishing spiritual growth. Leuci describes his evolution from a naive rookie to a seasoned detective who believes that the only people he can trust are his fellow cops -- until he learns that even that might not be true. 
Leuci remembers the incredibly heroic men and women who behaved more bravely than anyone thought possible -- police officers both celebrated and notorious, like Frank Serpico, Sonny Grosso, and Eddie Egan and Detective Frank King from the French Connection case; high-ranking lawyers like Alan Dershowitz, Rudy Giuliani, and Tom Puccio. Leuci also reveals the dark side of New York City's criminal justice system: the bitterness, poison, greed, untamed cruelty, and ambition that eventually overflowed into the alleyways, rooftops, precinct houses, and courtrooms of the city.
All the Centurions is an engrossing read filled with great chase scenes and intriguing dramas while being, at its core, the story of a man descending into a hell of his own making who ultimately finds the way out through truth and justice. This is a true story about the mean streets of New York that is as vivid and entertaining as the best crime novel.

All the Centurions: A New York City Cop Remembers His Years on the Street, 1961-1981

Professionals & Academics

Detective Victoria has never been shy about robbing heroin addicts. He loves the looks on their faces when he kicks down their doors and finds their highs gone in an instant. After seventeen years on the force, Victoria has no delusions about being an honest cop. And that makes him a perfect bagman for Tommy Doyle. Doyle is the New York Police Department’s chief of detectives, the top dog in a very dirty bunch. To young Bobby Porterfield the old man is a legend. But as Porterfield is drawn deeper into the dark side of the department, he finds that justice is never black and white. And when Doyle’s top men begin to die, Porterfield fears he may be next.

Doyle's Disciples

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Dreamscape Media

Capt. Nora Riter is a cop with a future, assuming her deadbeat husband doesn’t  mess it up first. He’s hocked her jewelry, stolen her gun, and had cocaine  delivered to their home. Their marriage is a toxic mess that could end her  career―unless Blaze Longo ends it first. On the streets of Red Hook, Blaze is a  legend: a merciless loan shark who wields a cleaver like a scalpel and wears a  pouch around his neck carrying the severed ears of clients stupid enough not to  pay up. Now the ice-cold psychopath has planned a kidnapping scheme that will  catapult him into the big time, and it’s up to Nora to put him in his place.

Odessa Beach

Rows, renewals, heartbreaks, and happiness in the life of a young woman who has weathered the end of an ill-fated marriage. Everything rings true in Odessa Beach. You won't be bored.-- The New York Times Book Review

Children's Books

Mysteries & Detectives

Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries

Leuci, the former New York cop whose exploits were documented in The Prince of the City , follows up his first two novels, Doyle's Disciples and Odessa Beach , with this tense story about steely Captain Butterfly, Marjorie Butera, a 19-year veteran of the force. Assigned to the Internal Affairs Division, charged with finding proof of the corruption in the force, Butera's investigation focuses on vicious Inspector Ronald Janesky. But Janesky--in line for promotion to commissioner, with a record based on illegal arrests and torturing prisoners--is apparently untouchable. Captain Butera's fellow (male) officers fear Janesky and despise the Butterfly as a female snitch. Only her lover, journalist Charles Rose, supports her decision to expose the crooked cop. Leuci alternates steamy scenes of love-making with gritty slices of New York life punctuated by bloody, violent clashes before the decisive confrontation takes place between the evil, unprincipled inspector and his female nemesis. If the adventure is not entirely credible, it is exciting, fast paced and a boost to feminists. -Publishers Weekly

Captain Butterfly

Beaufort Books

It was one of those Irish joints, a spot where you sucked down tap beer from paper cups, got loaded, then pulled chicks under the boardwalk. At night, if you got lucky, you could watch JoJo fistfight off-duty cops. Like JoJo and Dante, Jimmy was nineteen, and he loved every hour of every day of each week of his life. As adults, Dante O'Donnell followed his dead father into the police force; Jimmy Burns, closer than a blood brother, went along. JoJo Paradiso's future was preordained: He would be, first, an underboss in his father's crime family, eventually stepping into Salvator Paradiso's shoes. When Detectives O'Donnell and Burns are assigned to get the goods on JoJo Paradiso, it can't be a simple matter of cop against crook.

Fence Jumpers: a novel

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All the Centurions

Snitch

Blaze

Blaze

All the Centurions: A New York City Cop Remembers His Years on the Street, 1961-1981

Doyle's Disciples

Blaze

Odessa Beach

Captain Butterfly

Fence Jumpers: a novel