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LaSTANZA: NEW ORLEANS POLICE STORIES
by 
O'Neil De Noux
Synopsis
Collection of seventeen short stories, chronicling New Orleans police work in the 1970s and 1980s, features six unpublished LaStanza stories. A number of these tales have received critical acclaim. The Collection itself received an ‘A’ rating by Entertainment Weekly Magazine. Mr. De Noux adapted one of the LaStanza stories “Waiting for Alaina” into a screenplay, which was filmed in New Orleans and broadcast on local TV in 2001.
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Genre
Classification
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Inspiration
My father, my brother, some of my friends and me
Dedication
for Danny
Publisher
Autum Books/Pontalba Press
Publication Year
1999
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Excerpt (posted with permission by author)
WHO IS LASTANZA?
His father was a cop.
So was his big brother.
Raised in Mid-City New Orleans, he served in Vietnam with the First Infantry Division.
Graduating first in his class from the Police Academy, he was given his silver star-and-crescent badge and told to take care of business.
Assigned to the roughest police district in the murder capital of America, NOPD’s Bloody Sixth District, he took care of business for years.
At thirty he was promoted to Homicide.
He is the only Homicide Detective with a perfect solution record.
He’s received NOPD’s highest decoration The Medal of Valor – twice.
Along the way he’s had to shoot people, had to make friends with killers in order to get their confession, had to bury a brother and several good friends.
His father calls him mio leopardo piccolo “my little leopard” (pound for pound, nature’s most efficient killing machine).
It is said Italians make the best gangsters or the best cops.
Dino Francis LaStanza, Sicilian-American, may be the best of the best.
His father was a cop.
So was his big brother.
Raised in Mid-City New Orleans, he served in Vietnam with the First Infantry Division.
Graduating first in his class from the Police Academy, he was given his silver star-and-crescent badge and told to take care of business.
Assigned to the roughest police district in the murder capital of America, NOPD’s Bloody Sixth District, he took care of business for years.
At thirty he was promoted to Homicide.
He is the only Homicide Detective with a perfect solution record.
He’s received NOPD’s highest decoration The Medal of Valor – twice.
Along the way he’s had to shoot people, had to make friends with killers in order to get their confession, had to bury a brother and several good friends.
His father calls him mio leopardo piccolo “my little leopard” (pound for pound, nature’s most efficient killing machine).
It is said Italians make the best gangsters or the best cops.
Dino Francis LaStanza, Sicilian-American, may be the best of the best.