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LAbyrinth: A Detective Investigates the Murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G., the Implication of Death Row Records' Suge Knight, and the Origins of the Los Angeles Police Scandal |  | Author: Randall Sullivan
Publisher: Grove Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 548830
Media: Paperback
Pages: 336
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 080213971X
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.15230979494
EAN: 9780802139719
ASIN: 080213971X
Publication Date: January 3, 2003
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Flaunt magazine declares LAbyrinth "absolutely impossible to put down" -- a book whose stunning discoveries are nonetheless "incredibly thorough and surprisingly credible." Acclaimed journalist Randall Sullivan follows Russell Poole, a highly decorated LAPD detective who in 1997 was called to investigate a controversial cop-on-cop shooting, and eventually discovered that the officer killed was tied to Marion "Suge" Knight's notorious gangsta-rap label, Death Row Records. During his investigation, Poole would come to realize that a growing cadre of black officers were allied not only with Death Row but with the murderous Bloods street gang. And incredibly, he began to uncover evidence that at least some of these "gangsta cops" may have been involved in the murders of rap superstars Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur. Still more shocking is what happened when Russell Poole became lead investigator in the murder of Notorious B.I.G.: as his shrewd detective work pointed to crooked cops such as David Mack, who orchestrated one of the biggest bank heists in Los Angeles history, Poole found his investigation stifled by a police chief wary of doing further damage to a department already sullied by the O. J. Simpson trial, the Rodney King beating, and the Rampart corruption scandal. Could it be that the Rampart scandal -- in which dozens of officers were implicated in a conspiracy of robbery, brutality, drug dealing, and false imprisonment -- was only a smokescreen for a far more damaging debacle? Igniting a firestorm of controversy in the music industry and the Los Angeles media, the hardcover publication of LAbyrinth helped to prompt two lawsuits against the LAPD (one brought by the widow and mother of Notorious B.I.G., the other by Poole himself) that may finally bring this story completely out of the shadows. Entertainment Weekly insists that "no single source presents so complete or damning a record" of this "compelling" epic tale of L.A. noir.
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 Labyrinth July 30, 2010
Cwn_Annwn (Copenhagen, Denmark)
The gist of whats going on in this book is that the author concludes, mainly through interviews with a detective that was on the Biggie Smalls murder case that the murders of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls were hits ordered by Suge Knight and were carried out by police officers who were affiliated with the Bloods street gang and worked as security for Knights Death Row record label.
I don't know if he gets it right or not but he does make a pretty good argument that this is the case. When a white detective who thought he had enough to make arrests in the Smalls murder but wasn't allowed to by LAPD higher ups spilled the beans on what was going on the media didn't pursue the story because "you can't tell a story where the good guy is a white detective and the villians are all black"! The police didn't want to delve to deeply into the case because the evidence that was there pointed to the most likely scenario being that the triggerman in both murders were probably Bloods street gang affiliated police officers who were carrying out the hits for Suge Knight and they did not want to deal with the public relations disaster. The weakest link in all this is when Shakur was gunned down Knight was sitting right next to him in the car. Old fashioned common sense tells me if Knight was planning on having someone killed it wouldn't be in a situation where he would be sitting right next to the person. But overall Sullivan makes a good case for his argument. I found this very entertaining for about the first 2/3s of the book and then it gets a little bogged down and boring the last third.
 KINDA BORING July 12, 2010
Ariyanna
HONESTLY I FOUND THIS BOOK PRETTY BORING...IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR THE JUICY STUFF ABOUT BIGGIE & TUPAC'S DEATH..I DONT RECOMMEND THIS BOOK .. IT STARTED OFF SLOW TALKING ABOUT THE LIFE OF THIS DETECTIVE.. I GAVE THE BOOK TWO CHANCES AND FOUND IT BORING... NOTHING INTERESTING IN IT TO ME.. BUT THATS JUST MY OPINION
 Reads Like Fiction December 23, 2009
Todd Croak-Falen (Los Angeles, CA)
Sullivan does an excellent job of taking a web so tangled it could have been a James Ellroy plot, and presenting it in a clear, logical order. The rabbit hole goes deeper and deeper as the pages turn, until we start to wonder if we can ever possibly know just how far it reached. Every answered question leads to ten new questions, and the more we learn, the more complicated it gets.
I first learned of the connection between Notorious B.I.G.'s death, Tupac Shakur's death, Suge Knight, and the LAPD's CRASH Unit Rampart Scandal from Sullivan's "Rolling Stone" article. This book expands on that research and tells the story in vivid detail. There were moments when I felt like I was there.
Quick Turn Around October 20, 2009
Francisco J. Navarro
Book was as stated, in good quality, turn around time was very good. Very Satisfied!
The Truth is Finally Revealed August 15, 2009
Terry L. Greene (Long Beach, CA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Randall Sullivan has written a frightening, true account of who really killed Tupac and Biggie Smalls and how the LAPD covered up evidence so that, to this day, the cases remain "unsolved". Brilliant!
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