Product Description

19-year-old college student Mark Fisher couldn't wait to hit the Big Town. Booze and decadent dreams of beautiful and willing women filled the handsome footballer's mind. But Mark, from an affluent suburb, was unaware of the dark side of New York City night life. After becoming separated from his friends, Mark accepted an invitation to a party from an attractive young lady. It would be the last party of his life. Police found Fisher's beaten body riddled with five bullet holes and dumped on a tree-lined Brooklyn street. For more than a year top investigators worked around the clock to penetrate the wall of silence that surrounded the tightly-knit community where being seen as a "rat" was worse than any crime - including murder. But detectives finally fingered the man who pulled the trigger - the host of the party. John Guica was a self-styled Tony Soprano wannabe whose gang of no-good punks was little more than a neighbourhood laughingstock. But when the perfect victim fell into their hands, Guica and his cohort blasted their way to infamy - and twenty-five years to life in the harsh, unforgiving hell of prison.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #663821 in Books
• Published on: 2007-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780786018659
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

Repetitive, Unorganized & Large Parts Completely Irrelevant
By the time I was ready to do this review, I found that others had already had said what I had planned to say. And they are dead on target wtih their reviews!

The murder of Mark Fisher, a 19 year old Fairfield Univeristy student, was a tragedy, to say the least. Fisher decided, with a group of friends, to venture into "The City" (NYC); a place he had never visited without "adult" supervision. Several years later, the case of Mark Fisher is "solved" with the arrest and conviction of John Giuca & Antonio Russo, both want-to-be gangsters living in Brooklyn.

And that's the story in a paragraph, yet somehow this got turned into a full book. As other reviewers mentioned, this only happened because the author's filled this book with dribble (ie, Jennifer Baker, a Brooklyn Calendar Girl). I could care less about their petitions for John's freedom or what they do for a living.

Now, for the opinionated portion of my review...there wasn't enough evidence to convict John Giuca. However, he was convicted because of his mother. Giuca should have cut the apron strings long ago as nobody likes nor trusts a Mama's Boy.

As sad as it is, this wasn't a case that warranted a book being written. As I stated above, it can actually be condensed to a paragraph; possibly two. If there is any entertainment value to this book at all, it is in following the trial of the two suspects and deciding for yourself how you would have voted should you have been on that jury.

Save it for when there is nothing else to read. Even then, consider taking a hiatus before picking up this book.

Why?
How can you go to a party with people and by the end of the night you are dead? Kids today just have no morals. Take what I can get However I can get it. That is how it seems to me. Shame on them. A life lost and a decent nice looking guy gone because kids are cruel.

House party gone bad
It could have been the plot for a teen sit-com, "I'll throw a house party while my parents are away." But this familiar set-up ended in tragedy with the murder of 19-year old Mark Fisher, a college student who was shot down like a dog as the kids partied. No witnesses came forward.

This compelling book serves as a testament to good police work and legal wrangling as the authorities, using classic investigative techniques as well as the power of the grand jury, bust the monsters who thought they were going to get away with a cold-blooded slaughter.