"i've Got A Hostage"
March, 1998
"I've Got a Hostage"What Phil Panzarella says can lead to murder and suicide. In conversation, he adopts the kind of tone you can imagine Bogart or Cagney taking when offering curt assurances there will be no more trouble from the likes of Legs Diamond. His voice is capable of rich inflections of empathy and irony, but its primary quality is blunt force, and Panzarella can wield it like an angry drunk with a crowbar. A New York Police Department lieutenant in his 33rd year of service, Panzarella...