| Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia Contributor(s): Maas, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060930969 ISBN-13: 9780060930967 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $16.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1999 Annotation: In March of 1992, the highest-ranking member of the Mafia in America ever to defect broke his blood oath of silence and testified against his boss, John Gotti. He is Salvatore (Sammy the Bull) Gravano, second-in-command of the Gambino organized-crime family, the most powerful in the nation. Today, Gotti is serving life in prison without parole. And as a direct consequence of Gravano's testimony, Cosa Nostra - the Mafia's true name - is in shambles. In Underboss, based on dozens of hours of interviews with Gravano, much of it written in Sammy the Bull's own voice, we are ushered as never before into the uppermost secret inner sanctums of Cosa Nostra - an underworld of power, lust, greed, betrayal, deception, sometimes even honor, with the specter of violent death always poised in the wings. Gravano's is a story about starting out on the street, about killing and being killed, revealing the truth behind a quarter-century of shocking headlines. It is also a tragic story of a wasted life, of unalterable choices and the web of lies, weakness, and treachery that underlie the so-called Honored Society. |
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| BISAC Categories: - True Crime | Organized Crime - Biography & Autobiography | Criminals & Outlaws - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 97157286 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.3" W x 8" (0.65 lbs) 336 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Sammy the Bull Gravano is the highest-ranking member of the Mafia in America ever to defeat. In telling Gravano's story, Peter Maas brings us as never before into the innermost sanctums of the Cosa Nostra as if we were there ourselves--a secret underworld of power, lust, greed, betrayal, and deception, with the specter of violent death always waiting in the wings. |
Contributor Bio(s): Maas, Peter: - Peter Maas's is the author of the number one New York Times bestseller Underboss. His other notable bestsellers include The Valachi Papers, Serpico, Manhunt, and In a Child's Name. He lives in New York City. |