In 1972, police officer Phillip Cardillo was shot and killed inside Harlem’s Mosque #7 in the midst of an all-out assault on the NYPD from the Black Liberation Army. Circle of Six is the true story of Detective Randy Jurgensen’s determined effort to bring justice to Cardillo’s killer, Lewis 17X Dupree, by taking on the Black Liberation Army, the Nation of Islam, NYPD brass and city hall.

He broke the case with an unlikely accomplice, Foster 2X Thomas, a member of the Nation of Islam who became Jurgensen's witness. The relationship they formed during the time before the trial gave each of the two men a greater perspective of the two sides in the street war and ultimately changed them forever.

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No Lights, No Sirens: The Corruption and Redemption of an Inner City Cop
by Robert Cea

A no-holds-barred tale of an inner city cop's relentless journey into the criminal netherworld.

No Lights, No Sirens is a dark sojourn into the soul of an urban cop. Robert Cea began his career as an idealistic young officer, a true believer. But the system for which he would tirelessly risk everything ultimately led to his ruin. Brutally authentic, as gritty and graphic as the life itself, his memoir takes readers into the cruisers and onto the streets to show how the law was -- and continues to be -- routinely bent just to stay one step ahead of the criminals. Cea reveals his slow downward spiral into the depths of hell and back, and illuminates a hidden side of detective work in New York's most crime-riddled neighborhoods as never before. Going beyond standard tell-all biographies, this eye-opening, thoroughly authentic personal story is as gripping as it is terrifying. Sure to make headlines, it is a morality tale with repercussions for us all.

Robert Cea retired in his early 30s as the fifth most decorated police officer in the history of the NYPD. Film rights to his life story have been sold to the producers of Donnie Brasco.