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Blockbuster
it goes on today in every major American city. The unscrupulous real estate developers who use intimidation to manipulate the lives of others have made headlines from coast to coast. And in this tense and suspenseful novel-based on an actual case-Gerald Green portrays the human drama, and the human cost of their callous greed. Blockbuster is the story of seven families who find a luxury high-rise planned for the site of their rent-controlled walk-ups on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Overnight the peace and quiet of their homes are shattered by obscene phone calls, unexplained fires, and increasingly terrifying forms of harassment. One by one, the tenants learn the meaning of fear and helplessness, until only two couples remain...who find not only their apartments are threatened, but their lives as well.
316 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1972
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July 26, 2019
Overall, I thought this book was pretty long and pretty boring. It had some good parts and I understood the difficulty that people who were poor or common had w/housing when a landlord was offered lots of money for an apartment building. I was glad to have some knowledge of the lengths and brutality that people engaged in to make a buck. It would have been a better read if it had been a bit shorter.
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