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A Memoir of Survival
Putnam
January 2007
On Sale: January 18, 2007
320 pages
ISBN: 0399154027
EAN: 9780399154027
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political
On January 21, 1998, the night before his thirty-eighth
birthday, federal prosecutor Stanley Alpert was kidnapped
off the streets of Manhattan. This is the story of what
happened next. . . . Alpert was taken by a carful of gun-toting thugs looking to
use his ATM card, but when they learned his bank balance the
plan changed. They took him, blindfolded with his own scarf,
to a Brooklyn apartment, with the idea of going to a bank
the next day and withdrawing most of his money. But the
later it got, the more the plan changed again . . . and
again . . . as his captors alternately held guns to his
head, threatened his family, engaged him in discussions of
"gangsta" philosophy, sought his legal advice, and, once
they learned it was his birthday, offered him sexual favors
from their prostitute girlfriends as a "birthday present."
All the while, Alpert, still blindfolded, talked with them,
played on their attitudes and fears, tried to figure out
where their mood swings would take them next, and memorized
every detail he could in the event that he ever managed to
get out of there alive. In the meantime, his friends and law enforcement colleagues,
worried that they hadn't heard from him, launched a major
police and FBI investigation. It, too, would take many
twists and turns before it was done-and some of them would
be very strange indeed. Filled with immediacy, drama, and extraordinary characters,
told not only from Alpert's memory and notes but from police
reports, interviews with NYPD detectives, FBI agents, and
witnesses, videotaped confessions, and court records, The
Birthday Party reads like a thriller-but every word is true.
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