'The French Connection' is a gripping account of an extraordinary narcotics case told as it actually happened. The story is spread over many suspense-filled months and involves plush Manhattan night-clubs, dark tenements in Brooklyn and the Bronx, tree-lined streets on the affluent upper East Side, Paris, Marseilles and Palermo. The case involved both American and French criminals, including Jean Jehan, director of the world's largest heroin network, and Jacques Angelvin, a famous French television star.
Altogether the investigation involved over three hundred policemen from the local, State, Federal and International levels. It reveals in fascinating detail all of the many facets of police probes - the hours of weary surveillance, the skilled intuition, the luck (both good and bad), the equipment and the very real dangers.
