American desperado: story told by Jon Roberts about his involvement in drug trafficking in the 80s. The son of a new York wiseguy with a really good story. Took me a week to finish and it was an incredible read. Cocaine cowboys the movie from
2009 is based on this book. highly recommend it

Gonna start two more. Double deal : the inside story of murder, unbridled corruption, and the cop who was a mobster and GASPIPE: Confessions of a mafia boss

Will let you guys know if it's worth reading or not... Give me a week

I just stumbled across Born to the Mob -- interesting stuff about Phil Lucky. A lot of Bonanno heavyweights started in his crew : Basciano, Pitera, current acting boss who Phil through out of his crew.

I am researching a story I want to write that goes into detail regarding what the deal was with that Bonanno three-capo revolt that Massino and Sonny Black put down.... anyone have any leads? Id appreciate it!

The "Last Godfather" and "King of The Godfathers "by DeStefano has a chapter on the three captains and some photos. The new Vinny Gorgeous book by DeStefano has some stuff on it. Basciano was Trinchera's driver for a while.

Almost done. With the new vinnny gorgeous book. It's decent so far but Destefanos writing style is getting on my nerves , reminds me of Carlos style of repeating the same thing over and over. Can't really blame massino for ratting I think he's smart enough to realize American LCN is finished and now his loyalty is to his family where it should of been all along

I live close to a barnes n noble the new scarpa book is great. I read a couple chapters and leave 30bucks is steep. bot the aurthor got vic orean's kids giving there take on every little thing scarpa did in the Colombo war. he got larry mazza this guy did his work he got a lot of goons giving there 2 cents. researched as good as rabb's 5 families. sessa was a pawn scarpa a genius. hope no one tkes the last copy out the store, he looks at the Colombo war from every angle.greg jr. the orenas,sessa,casso. caaso told oreana when he became boss scarpa's a informer the cops told him. this is a great book.

Almost done. With the new vinnny gorgeous book. It's decent so far but Destefanos writing style is getting on my nerves , reminds me of Carlos style of repeating the same thing over and over. Can't really blame massino for ratting I think he's smart enough to realize American LCN is finished and now his loyalty is to his family where it should of been all along

I tried to search for a post on this one, but I just picked up Mafia Dynasty by John H. Davis (author of Mafia Kingfish-about Marcello, this one is a general history of the Gambinos). Has anyone read it? What do you think?

Just a chapter in and I'm thinking where he got all of this background info on Don Carlo? Probably relatives.

Barely a hundred pages in and this book is already turning south. According to Davis, Carmine Galante, "boss of the Bannano family", was at Apalachin. He further speculates wildly about Apalachin, writing that the state police may have been tipped-off by Frank Costello, a double-crossing Carlo Gambio and Meyer Lansky (and Marcello to boot) to embarrass and cause trouble for Genovese. Why they would jeoprodize every other boss in the country to just get back at Genovese the author doesn't address. He just tells us that it may have been a set-up because a bunch of Cosa Nostra bosses weren't there; which is a pretty huge leap since not all "commission" meetings were attended or rep'd by all bosses and Genovese's rivals would have been keen to find a handy excuse not to attend an impromptu meeting called by Genovese in the first place.

Even for a 20-year-old book this is not good.

so in this book about scarpa kids gives a interview he was made in 1977 at the age of 25. his father proposed him he got made at some hall in Brooklyn were Colombo would hold rallys. the Colombo made guys really young in the 70tys 25. Michael franses was made at 25 yrs old in 1975. its strange the Colombo luchese and Genovese open the books in 74 and the Gambino's and bonannos didn't to 1977. imagine gaspipe made in 74 and all gotti and his friends arnt made yet and have to bow down to guys like mike fransese who got made Halloween 1975. sht paul catellano must have made over 100 guys in 1977 alone. greg depalma got caught on the phone talking about him and 11 others getting made grqvano said he was with a bunch of guys and who know how many guys gotti got made with.

I live close to a barnes n noble the new scarpa book is great. I read a couple chapters and leave 30bucks is steep. bot the aurthor got vic orean's kids giving there take on every little thing scarpa did in the Colombo war. he got larry mazza this guy did his work he got a lot of goons giving there 2 cents. researched as good as rabb's 5 families. sessa was a pawn scarpa a genius. hope no one tkes the last copy out the store, he looks at the Colombo war from every angle.greg jr. the orenas,sessa,casso. caaso told oreana when he became boss scarpa's a informer the cops told him. this is a great book.

Cheech what'd u grab, Last Days of the Sicilians? Good stuff