The Goodfella Tapes

Informationen zum Autor George Anastasia, who spent more than thirty years reporting on crime for the Philadelphia Inquirer, is the grandson of Sicilian immigrants who settled in South Philadelphia. He is the author of six books of nonfiction, including Blood and Honor: Inside the Scarfo Mob—the Mafia’s Most Violent Family (which Jimmy Breslin called the “best gangster book ever written”); The Last Gangster; and The Summer Wind: Thomas Capano and the Murder of Anne Marie Fahey . He lives in southern New Jersey. Klappentext As mob families go, the Philadelphia Mafia is the most dysfunctional familyof all—with brother turning against brother, sons turning on their fathers.In 1993, an embittered legacy of rivalry and hatred exploded into a brutal,bloody battle between old world mobster and the young, flamboyant JoeyMerlino. However, this would be warfare different from any other. This time, theFBI had it all down on tape. Among the mobsters caught on tape: John Stanfa, the violent, often irrational, paranoid old-school mob don battlinga new generation of savage young turks. Rosario Bellocchi , the young Sicilian-born hitman in love with his boss’sdaughter, who would do anything to get ahead—even kill his best friend. John Veasey, the two-hundred-pound mad dog hitman who once had to postponea hit—in order to visit his parole officer. Drawing on four years of investigative work, and more than two thousandtaped conversations, veteran true crime journalist George Anastasia takes readersinside the world of mobsters at war, and FBI agents so close on their heels thatt hey even watched onehit unfold live through asurveillance camera. Zusammenfassung Goodfella Tapes by George Anastasia is the true story of how the FBI recorded a mob war and brought down a mafia don. A riveting, eye-opening true crime masterwork in the vein of Wiseguy, Underboss, Havana Nocturne, The Valachi Papers , and other bestselling exposés of life in La Cosa Nostra, Goodfella Tapes is an astonishing story of the brutal acts and remarkable blunders of  soldiers, capos, and kingpins of the Philadelphia mob and the ingenuity of government agents that, combined, help topple a powerful criminal enterprise....

Produktdetails

• Autoren: George Anastasia
• Verlag: William Morrow
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 08.03.2011
• EAN: 9780062009333
• ISBN: 978-0-06-200933-3
• Seiten: 256
• Abmessung: 135 mm x 203 mm x 15 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Spannung; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Recht > Strafrecht, Strafprozessrecht, Kriminologie; True Crime, Biography: general, Memoirs, Local History, Social, group or collective psychology, Organized crime, History of the Americas, Biography: historical, political and military, Political leaders and leadership, US Northeast: Mid-Atlantic States, Criminal law: procedure and offences, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Political, TRUE CRIME: Murder / General, PSYCHOLOGY: Social Psychology, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Criminals & Outlaws, TRUE CRIME: Historical, TRUE CRIME: Murder / Serial Killers, LAW: Criminal Law / General, TRUE CRIME: Espionage