I have finished reading "La Source". I bought a copy in French while i was in Montreal on holidays.

I am slightly disappointed as Andrew Scoppa didn't really gave that much info as i expected. It seems that he used the journalists as much as they used him. Overall the book gives a interesting account of the Montreal Mafia after Rizzuto's reign but there isn't much inside information.

One thing that was particularly intresting though is the confirmation that there are no longer any made guys in Montreal. The Montreal Mafia is made of various italian guys which have no official affiliation to any family and who do not form an actual family in the sense of the 5 families for example. They don't have induction ceremonies but somehow they still feel they belong to a single entity which is loosely structured.

Anyone read Gotti wars by the fed prosecutor Gleeson?

Truthfully, the subject matter bores me these days. Plus ,books revolving around trial proceedings tend to be boring also. I'll get it for my mob book collection but I'll wait until its cheaper on the 2nd hand market.

Any reviews?

Are there any books by/ about genovese associates ? Can't think of any or even made guys. Chin, Vito, costello, Valachi . Have books also there's a book about Boot Boiardo. Which for a book from 2014 I've not seen for anything much cheaper than its new price of £30 odd . Hardly any UK 2nd hand. Good opening chapter free on Google books

New e-book available on Amazon today — link below is to the Amazon US site.

The Buffalo Mafia: The Return Of Organized Crime To The Queen City
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BP9KYP2H

The ebook version of Early Organized Crime in Detroit: Vice, Corruption and the Rise of the Mafia by James Buccellato is on sale right now. The prices below are even cheaper than when I bought it on sale this past October.

https://www.amazon.com/Early-Organized-Crime-Detroit-Corruption-ebook/dp/B01AHKRBUO (USD$2.19)

https://www.amazon.ca/Early-Organized-Crime-Detroit-Corruption-ebook/dp/B01AHKRBUO (CAD$2.99)

https://www.kobo.com/ww/en/ebook/early-organized-crime-in-detroit-1 (USD$2.99)

https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/early-organized-crime-in-detroit-1 (CAD$3.73)
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The ebook version of Motor City Mafia: A Century of Organized Crime in Detroit by Scott Burnstein is also on sale right now.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0093CHZ2W (USD$2.19)

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0093CHZ2W (CAD$2.99)

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/83002f19-4a7f-40f9-9fa3-8213f5dbf3f4 (USD$2.99)

https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/83002f19-4a7f-40f9-9fa3-8213f5dbf3f4 (CAD$3.73)

^^^ e books are so cheap. I wish I was into them, because of the price difference.
But you can't beat a physical book. Even when every new mob book is on YouTube as a audiobook, I'd still rather pay for a book.

Posted this before but can't believe Larry Mazza's book is not available as a physical book. Wonder why? The guy had a better story to tell than most..

Going to read Boston mob by Songini next, seems decent from the little dip I had. Revolves around Barboza, it seems. Be hard to better HITMAN/ Martorano, that's a great book.

Are there any decent personal account books by any Sicilian/ Boot of Italy mafia(+ the others) members? Like, Underboss - SG .

Anything where the subject has some decent stories to tell, talks about his mafia/ camorra/ n' dran?????? family. The characters, feuds,scams etc
Got the books about Riina + Provenzano . But I'd like to read about lesser known guys.

In English or American.

** got White Shotgun ' the Sicilian mafia in their own words '. Which is good for dipping into, here and there. ---//-- ------//----- is DeMeo crews 'doing the houdini '. lupara bianca

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL AT GBB

For anyone interested you can read Pleasant Avenue Connection book on Internet archive. More about police corruption and heroin than lcn. Is ok but glad I never paid circa £300 for a copy. Its not really a mafia book.

Has anyone read THE MAFIA LIBRARY books?

They've a gambino and Genovese , maybe others.

Are they actual book or more Petepiece type lists, events ? Petepiece has only the Genovese family left to do of the 5 families. Not really books ,to me, just info ,lists .

Pretty much the same but the Decavaclante was interesting

Received my copy of Petepieces' new The Genovese family book.
Super chunky, double the pages of the others in the series.
Also the order in which the books were published was like the ranking of the family's.
Colombo, bonnano, lucchese, gambino, Genovese.

Wonder if he'll carry on. Philly, Decavalcantes etc

Got the Galante book, the cigar . It's by the persico book guys. Although it's hardback.
Also got the book about the Sicilian guy Ronsivalle. The guy who killed for the pizza connection guys.

Currently reading Breaking the mob, by a Philly cop in the Scarfo years. Its good but then again I also liked the book by that Salerno rat ,the plumber. Even though his mob life didn't encompass much bar the falcone murder.

finished the new D'Elia book, its not very good. The book said that Barbara wasn't a boss rather a Magaddino capodecina.

Most mob books suck in my opinion. Almost none of them are as detailed as I'd like them to be. A lot of authors think that a 100 to 200 page book will suffice, when it needs at bare minimum to be 300, if not 400 or 500 pages. For example, if I wrote a book on the Lucchese Family right now, best believe it's going to start from its very very beginnings, in painful details as much as possible, all the way to the latest piece of news of the Family, with every little bit of detail that I could possibly muster along the way. Maybe that's why I like books like The 6th Family or The Outfit by Gus Russo so much, I feel like they come pretty close to the quality of Mafia book I'm looking for.

I just published a book on the history of the Mafia that focuses on gangsters who came from Corleone, Sicily. Some of the chapters are focused on Corleone, most of it is looking at their spread across the United States. It's a very comprehensive look at the mafiosi from one city, and uses the examples to prove broader hypotheses about how the Mafia originated and is organized. It's the result of years of research and I can't wait to hear what people have to say about it. The book is titled IN OUR BLOOD: The Mafia Families of Corleone. There are print and e-book formats available. The e-book edition has links to the genealogical profiles of the people who are named in the book. Available on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CMZZK5W9?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

I’m sure this book has been mentioned somewhere on the 80 previous pages here but I thought I would ask it for a fresh opinion and fresh replies.
One of the first mob books I read, and really enjoyed- Roemer- Man against the mob, but I’ve heard some people say he was a liar and a fraud.
can I get everybody else’s opinion on that book, and Bill Roemer?
I enjoyed feeling we were seeing the inner workings of the Outift and hearing what they heard on the bug.
I did read his Vegas mob war book also.

When Gangland Was Jewish
Two exuberant new books chronicle the heyday of New York City’s criminal underworld on the Lower East Side.

THE TALENTED MRS. MANDELBAUM: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss, by Margalit Fox

THE INCORRUPTIBLES: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld, by Dan Slater

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/16/...9U0.MjwM.cEdnMfAgM-LM&smid=url-share

Millspgh I thought roemers book was excellent as well. Those calling him a liar are pretty funny since they’re not even in postion to know. We’re they on his detail? Lol just like most here they don’t know, or don’t want to believe so they resort to putting the book, person down. Good book

Anyone here recommend the
BORGATA books by Louis Ferrante

First one which goes from 1860s /1960s
or

2nd one that covers 60s onward.

Is he the guy who was related to Phillip Giaccone?

That Frank Dimatteo author has a book coming out on

RED HOOK.

But he's already written a book on Gallos and that area .

He's written his first and second books on the area; this is the 3rd. I don't get it. The Galante book was the best. He and the co-author really did their homework scouring every FBI report and arrest records going back to his teen years. The book is without a doubt an 8 to 10 given Galante info is the same historical points over and over.

I really enjoyed STEEL CITY MAFIA: BLOOD, BETRAYAL & PITTSBURGH’S LAST DON by Paul Hodos. Very well written and does excellent job taking the reader through the 80s, 90s and early 2000s.