Badge of the Assassin

Recounts the five-year, cross-country manhunt for and prosecution of those responsible for the ruthless killings of two on-duty New York City policemen in a Harlem housing project in 1971. Reissue.

Robert K. Tanenbaum has been homicide bureau chief of the New York criminal courts where 250 new cases arrive daily and ran the homicide bureau for the New York District Attorney’s Office and served as deputy chief counsel to the Congressional committee investigations into the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Most recently, he has taught Advanced Criminal Procedure at the University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law. His previous works include the novels Outrage, Betrayed, Capture, Escape, Malice, Fury, Hoax, Resolved, Enemy Within, and Absolute Rage and true-crime books The Piano Teacher: The True Story of a Psychotic Killer and Badge of the Assassin.