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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... to stand exposed before the rest of the Cosa Nostra as someone who sentenced his men to death without any sort of a hearing and then dismissed it by calling them “ rats . ” Everything came to a head on the morning of June 22 .
... to stand exposed before the rest of the Cosa Nostra as someone who sentenced his men to death without any sort of a hearing and then dismissed it by calling them “ rats . ” Everything came to a head on the morning of June 22 .
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And early on the morning of April 11 , 1966 , he ripped out the electric cord of his radio , stepped into his shower stall ostensibly to bathe , knotted one end of the cord to the shower head , and tried to hang himself .
And early on the morning of April 11 , 1966 , he ripped out the electric cord of his radio , stepped into his shower stall ostensibly to bathe , knotted one end of the cord to the shower head , and tried to hang himself .
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This son of a bitch hit one of the boys over the head last night . ” Usually you just go for a guy's legs , but Tommy and Johnny were hitting him over the head and on every part of his body before I could stop them .
This son of a bitch hit one of the boys over the head last night . ” Usually you just go for a guy's legs , but Tommy and Johnny were hitting him over the head and on every part of his body before I could stop them .
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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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