Busted

<p>When Benny Martinez walks into the offices of the <em>Philadelphia Daily News</em> in 2008 to speak with reporter Wendy Ruderman the paper is on the brink of bankruptcy. What he tells Wendy and her colleague Barbara Laker is too shocking to ignore: his career as a confidential informant for a member of the Philadelphia Police Department's narcotics squad has drawn him into a web of corruption and now Benny is afraid for his life.</p><p><em>Busted</em> is Ruderman and Laker's riveting account of their investigation into the acts committed by powerful rogue members of the narcotics squad. By dint of perseverance ingenuity and good old shoe-leather reporting the women unraveled a tapestry of lies. Starting with the discovery of fabricated search warrants they soon find that the scandal encompasses a systematic looting of immigrant-owned businesses and allegations of brutal sexual assault.</p><p>When Ruderman and Laker produce a devastating series of articles that blows the lid off the scandal they not only win the fight for justice. They also win a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting an unthinkable triumph for two city reporters at a beleaguered local paper.</p>