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The Siclian Mafia by Carl Russo

Blood Oath by George Fresolone. Great look into the day-to-day life of a low-level wiseguy in New Jersey plus the time in the Philly Mob after Scarfo was locked up He does make some bold claims which cannot be backed up, but the majority of the information is supported by conversations he recorded wearing a wire. Really enjoyable.

Body Mike by Joseph Cantalupo and Thomas C. Renner. Everyone's favourite from the Crime Inc series details his life as a mob associate in the 60s and 70s. Plenty of great information about the mob in Brooklyn. Quite grim and unglamorous depiction of what it's actually like to work with these guys. Great read.

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment...04416?cid=bitly

Book explores the lives of the notorious New Jersey mobsters not named Tony Soprano

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/10304254/My-father-New-Yorks-most-feared-mafia-boss.html

The Godfather’s Daughter, will be published in Britain.

https://njmonthly.com/articles/jersey-living/books/writer-hopes-mob-book-hit/

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vb3w3...rs-the-sopranos

Scott Deitche on his new book about NJ mobsters.

The Underboss: The Rise and Fall of a Mafia Family by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neil about the bugging of Gerry Anguilo's office. Great history of the mob in Boston and lots of interesting excerpts from the bug. I wish there were books like this for other bugging operations in that era.

Originally published in 1989, my version was updated more recently to include the fact that two of the agents who feature prominently in the story turned out to be dirty.

Are there any books that detail Joey Lombardo and Frank Schweihs? The few Outfit books I’ve read don’t seem to have much on them.

Just received a little gift ,again from the wife.."Deal with the Devil" by Peter Lance...about Greg Scarpa's relationship w/ F.B.I. agent Lin DeVecchio, A quick look thru & it looks promising. Anybody get to this read yet ? is it worth it? Comments?

I enjoyed it. Showed how Scarpa was more evil than I even thought he was. One thing to be prepared for is that it is more investigative journalism than someone telling a story. A lot of pouring over old documents.

For sure. It's kind of in a league of it's own IMO. But all the analysis of the documents is very interesting as is Scarpa's story in general. Just don't go into it expecting a book like Leonetti's or D'Arco's. I might compare it to The Sixth Family if anything.

What’s up Hood?
Hope all well.

Hi other guys... Agree, this is a Solid book and offers a lot of info on document info which I am interested in and gives outstanding detail of some of the others besides GS ( Cutolo & others) - that sometimes have better and more realistic life stories.

ENJOY.

Thanx fellas, I sometimes start @ the end side,& went right 4 the notes first & scarpas fbi summary,very interesting indeed!...& Welcome back Dues Paid!!

Chin: The Life and Crimes of Mafia Boss Vincent Gigante by Larry McShane. Since I have done years of research on Gigante there wasn't any mind blowing new revelations in this but it was still good to learn extra little details. For those that don't already know a lot about the Chin it would be a great read.

I just started with the eBook.

Thanx Hood, I had hammered this book today riding a train. Can’t wait to get back to it tomorrow watching snow fall.



Getting this on my Kindle for sure, just looked it up 6 bucks, thanx.

I’m also looking into “The President Street Boys”.

Never read this one , I think... I may need to review Library.

Anyone ever read this one?

Before throwing money at Amazon for ebook editions of older books, check out archive.org. They have a lot of ebooks there available to check out for 2 weeks at a time, availability permitting. Just have to register a user and pass. There's a ton of mafia ebooks there.

Holy shit. Thanks OakAsFan!

Holy shit ll

Im going there right now, never heard of this.

TY very much appreciated OAF

What an outstanding site Oak, thanks again. I am already watching some classic films I found on this site.

Yes, it's a pretty cool site. I used to just to there to look at content from defunct websites, then one day I clicked the book icon and started searching for some, and realized I could check them out like a library. There's a lot of rare mob books from the '70s there. A lot info dated, but as with all other forms of entertainment, writers were more entertaining then and put a lot more effort into their work.

Went in barnes today picked up deal with the devil i forgot what a great book it was. Just happend to skim to the part were the authors talks about letters he wrote back n forth with gaspipe. Gaspipe said theres no doubt greg had his brother sal murderd. He was going around telling people he was a informant. Casso said he heard it also from gregs right hand man a guy joe brewster who i just read is mickey scars cousin. Brewster dad was a made guy in a legendary photo with big paul and abunch of other capos. Also casso says it was scarpa not the mafia cops who told him who shot him. Little nugget also in the book some cop dades says it was mickey boy pardiso brother also a fbi mole who shot sal scarpa. That book is loaded with shit.

He killed joe brewster and sal like 6moonths apart.

I liked the book too,and agree with you about Scarpa. Sometimes I think the media and people in general use words like evil and psychopath a little too loosely, but with Scarpa it fits. The guy was a despicable character, he didn't have a positive effect on one person. The guy truly only cared about himself. He had two of his sons kill their best friends. The guy destroyed the lives of many individuals and their family.

http://www.ozy.com/good-sht/the-best-boo...m_medium=Social

Books on prison gangs

Yes, Because they did the work and put in the time, not a team of writers from corporate who do not cross reference or can perform independently

The Kid Stays in the Picture by Robert Evans. This is a thoroughly entertaining read by the producer of Rosemary's Baby, The Godfather, Chinatown and other classics. Why I mention it here is because Evans was good friends with mob lawyer Sidney Korshak and there are some amusing anecdotes about how his connections came in handy.

I also finally read The Valachi Papers by Peter Maas. I don't know why I neglected reading this for so many years. Great read for mob researchers. Lots of interesting information and insight on the history of the mob and its major players.

It could of come from tommy dades.He grew up with Larry mazza,who was closer to Greg than anyone. Personally, who ever hit Sal was told to do it by Greg.

I read that crap. Pistone is and was a fiend for the limelight.

The Mafia and the Machine: The Story of the Kansas City Mob by Frank R. Hayde. Great read. I had no idea how wild, profitable and powerful the mob was in Kansas City.