The Set Up: The Shocking Aftermath to The French Connection Book

The Shocking Aftermath to The French Connection Ninety million dollars' worth of heroin is missing, and, somehow, rookie cop Day Palmer is in the middle of it. It's the same drug shipment last seen in Robin Moore's The French Connection, intercepted on its way from Marseilles to the streets of New York. Only now someone has stolen it. With a new preface by Moore, The Set Up is a true-crime thriller, lightly fictionalized and with names changed to protect the innocent, that follows the trail of the heroin seized by the New York City police - as documented in The French Connection - and subsequently stolen from the police vault.
There's no shortage of suspects, starting with the police themselves. Palmer is the only straight cop in a crooked precinct. His partner, Pancho Navarro, is dead, shot in Palmer's own car. The homicide department is calling it suicide, but everything about it smells like murder. Palmer starts asking questions, which only makes things worse. He's mysteriously transferred to Narcotics, to the most corrupt squad in a severely twisted department. His new partners, Cronin and Shulman, would be happy to see Palmer join his former partner in the cemetery overlooking the Queens Expressway. It looks as though they'll soon get their wish: When a lithe D.A. forces Palmer to wear a wire, he gets his chance to frame the framers, or die trying.
A B-17 nose gunner at the age of nineteen in World War II, Robin Moore graduated from Harvard in 1949. He worked as a television writer and producer, then as an executive for the Sheraton Hotel chain. First published in 1956, he has since written more than two dozen major books - and lost count of the minors - including his best-selling account of training and fighting with special forces in Vietnam, The Green Berets. His latest titles are The Hunt for Bin Laden: Task Force Dagger and Hunting Down Saddam: The Inside Story of the Search and Capture.
Milt Machlin served in the Pacific theater during World War II. He graduated from Brown University and attended the Sorbonne, studying in the Coeur de Civilization. He was the editor of Argosy magazine and the author of numerous books, fiction and nonfiction, including Ninth Life, Libby, The Search For Michael Rockefeller, Joshua's Altar, The Dig at Mount Ebal, Atlanta, Pipeline, The Worldshakers, Strangers in the Land, Gossip Wars, and The Family Man, also with Robin Moore. He received an Edgar Allen Poe Special Award from the Mystery Writers of America for The Set Up. Machlin was a native of New York City; he passed away on April 3, 2004.