Gotti's Boys
The Mafia Crew That Killed for John Gotti
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1.5 • 2 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A KILLER LINE-UP
In his bloody reign as the head of the Gambino crime family, John Gotti wracked up a lifetime of charges from gambling, extortion, and tax evasion to racketeering, conspiracy, and five convictions of murder. He didn’t do it alone. Surrounding himself with a rogues gallery of contract killers, fixers, and enforcers, he built one of the richest, most powerful and violent crime empires in modern history. Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Anthony M. DeStefano takes you inside Gotti’s inner circle to reveal the dark hearts and murderous deeds of the most remorseless and cold-blooded characters in organized crime. Men so vicious even the other Mafia families were terrified of them. Meet Gotti’s Boys . . .
* Charles Carneglia * Gene Gotti * Angelo “Quack-Quack” Ruggiero * Tony “Roach” Rampino * “Sammy the Bull” Gravano * Frank DeCicco * Vincent Artuso * Joe “The German” Watts *
THE ULTIMATE MURDERER’S ROW
“DeStefano explores John Gotti’s rise to the head of the Gambino family . . . Aficionados are sure to relish the finer, exhaustively researched details.”
—Publishers Weekly
“A thrilling ride . . . DeStefano has written another excellent biography of a memorable group of gangsters and an excellent addition to the history of the Teflon Don.”
—Booklist
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this solid true crime account, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist DeStefano (Top Hoodlum: Frank Costello, Prime Minister of the Mafia) explores the inner machinations of the New York Mob and John Gotti's rise to the head of the Gambino family. Relying on eyewitness accounts, conversations recorded on FBI tapped phones, court transcripts, interrogations, and interviews, DeStefano introduces the individuals at the mercy, and easy disposal of, the Teflon Don. Other prominent crime families the Bonannos, Luchesses, Colombos play a significant role in the narrative, as long-held resentments, new beefs, and power disputes lead to retribution, culminating with the assassination of crime boss Paul Castellano in 1985. With abundant references to the underbellies of Brooklyn and swanky locales of Manhattan, DeStefano does a fine job capturing the essence of New York in the recent past. Readers primarily intrigued by the mystique of the topic may wish for more narrative probing into the interpersonal relationships at the heart of the mob, but aficionados are sure to relish the finer, exhaustively researched details. Agent, Jill Marsal, Marsal Lyon Literary.
