Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
" An] engrossing, damning tale of widespread unchecked corruption in one of the nation's largest police departments, one that deserves attention . . . Exhaustively researched . . . The most thorough examination of these much-publicized events."--Boston Globe, on LAbyrinth
In 2002, acclaimed journalist Randall Sullivan's groundbreaking book
LAbyrinth ignited a firestorm in the music industry and the Los Angeles media by telling the story of Russell Poole, a highly decorated LAPD detective, who uncovered a cabal of "gangsta cops" tied to Marion "Suge" Knight's notorious rap label, Death Row Records, and to the murders of Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. Now Sullivan delivers
LABYRINTH 2, which brings the story up to date with an explosive look into the Notorious B.I.G. Estate's wrongful death suit against the LAPD and the City of Los Angeles.
LABYRINTH 2 demonstrates how reporting on the case swayed readers by repeatedly omitting evidence that suggested that Knight may have ordered a hit on Biggie, and LAPD officer David Mack and a man named Amir Muhammed executed it. And as the wrongful death lawsuit proceeds, a disturbing pattern of selective investigation and possible witness tampering emerges as well. Haunted by his failure to break the LAPD's code of silence about the Mack-Muhammed theory, Poole is forced to leave the department to which he devoted his adult life, and loses everything. A gripping investigation into murders, police corruption, and the corridors of power in Los Angeles, LABYRINTH 2 is another explosive chapter in a mystery that continues to hold us twenty years on.