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Book Summary and Reviews of Busted by Wendy Ruderman and Barbara Laker
Media Reviews
"Starred Review. This is a gritty, true-life thriller about the intersection of policing, drug dealing, and news reporting" - Booklist
"The book is a tough, lively lesson in how doing the right thing, the right way, may not be enough." - Publishers Weekly
"All the President's Men it's not, but Ruderman and Laker provide a welcome addition to the shelves of books about the mechanics and logistics of journalistic expos&#;s." - Kirkus
"I admire Wendy Ruderman and Barbara Laker, who are not only Pulitzer-Prize winning journalists, but fearless and fascinating women. Busted reads like a turbo-charged thriller, all the more compelling because it's true. Pick up a copy, and you won't be able to put it down." - Lisa Scottoline
"A story that not only pounds at the door to come inside, but stands as a much-needed reminder that newspapers are and always have been and, as far as I know, always will be the bedrock of the art of journalism." - Pete Dexter, journalist and author of National Book Award-winner Paris Trout
"Busted is a thoroughly engaging&#;trip into Philadelphia's underworld, where cops prey on those they are pledged to protect&#; Rich with character and incident, it
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BOOK REVIEW: Wendy Ruderman and Barbara Laker&#;s Busted
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Warts and all. That’s what you see of the Daily News’ crack reporting duo, Wendy Ruderman and Barbara Laker, in their new book, Busted. These are the women who won a Pulitzer Prize for “Tainted Justice,” a month series about a corrupt narcotics squad. Because of the work, they’ve been called dirty names and threatened by anonymous commentators online. But, with journalism in their blood, they have risked their lives pursuing leads and writing stories that shock and inform.
Their long road to the Pulitzer Prize started when Benny Martinez entered the Inquirer/Daily News building on North Broad in December He’d been sent by one of Ruderman’s regular sources to talk to the reporter about his work as a police informant, and how he now feared for his life. Ruderman, feeling that she needed “someone to help steel up my backbone, an ally in the fight,” raced across the newsroom to usher Laker, an editor at the tabloid paper, back to the table where Martinez sat.
Over the following 10 months, Ruderman and Laker reported and wrote 10 pieces about a narcotics squad that ransacked bodegas in Kensington,