Buddy Boys

Buddy Boys is a nonfiction account of corruption within the New York Police Department in the 1970s, focused on the 77th Precinct in Brooklyn, which was known as the Alamo. Set in neighborhoods plagued by drugs and violence, the story follows two officers, Henry Winter and Anthony Magno, who drifted from honest policing into a web of extortion and theft. When their illegal activity came to light, they faced prison or the choice to testify against their former colleagues. Mike McAlary, a journalist, reconstructs the scandal and the everyday temptations that drew decent officers toward wrongdoing.