The Valachi PapersThe First Inside Account of the Mafia In the 1960s a disgruntled soldier in New York's Genovese Crime Family decided to spill his guts. His name was Joseph Valachi. Daring to break the Mob's code of silence for the first time, Valachi detailed the organization of organized crimefrom the capos, or bosses, of every Family, to the hit men who "clipped" rivals and turncoats. With a phenomenal memory for names, dates, addresses, phone numbers -- and where the bodies were buried -- Joe Valachi provided the chilling facts that led to the arrest and conviction of America's major crime figures. The rest is history. Never again would the Mob be protected by secrecy. For the Mafia, Valachi's name would become synonymous with betrayal. But his stunning exposÉ . broke the back of America's Cosa Nostra and stands I today as the classic about America's Mob, a fascinat ing tale of power and terror, big money, crime ... and murder. |
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The earliest organized Italian criminals in America , the Black Hand extortion rings , preyed almost exclusively on the vast majority of their decent , hardworking countrymen who had settled here . The name came from a crudely drawn ...
The earliest organized Italian criminals in America , the Black Hand extortion rings , preyed almost exclusively on the vast majority of their decent , hardworking countrymen who had settled here . The name came from a crudely drawn ...
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All at once I dove down on the floor under the dashboard , got my right hand on the gas pedal , and held the wheel with my left hand . You must understand that all this was done in a couple of seconds . I pushed down on the pedal as ...
All at once I dove down on the floor under the dashboard , got my right hand on the gas pedal , and held the wheel with my left hand . You must understand that all this was done in a couple of seconds . I pushed down on the pedal as ...
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The ones who want to come with me , just raise your hands . ” . ” Annoyed because Gagliano had made no effort to recruit him privately , Valachi , as he puts it , " unconsciously ” raised his hand . Then he saw two other Gagliano men ...
The ones who want to come with me , just raise your hands . ” . ” Annoyed because Gagliano had made no effort to recruit him privately , Valachi , as he puts it , " unconsciously ” raised his hand . Then he saw two other Gagliano men ...
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| Title | The Valachi Papers Bantam books |
| Author | Peter Maas |
| Edition | 9, revised |
| Publisher | Putnam, 1968 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 9 Jan 2007 |
| ISBN | 067163173X, 9780671631734 |
| Length | 285 pages |
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