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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Page 54
A badly finished metal disk on the shower head had an edge just sharp en
enough at the right spot to slice through the cord under the dead weight of
Valachi's dangling body . Then a guard on duty outside his cell door , solid steel
save for a ...
A badly finished metal disk on the shower head had an edge just sharp en
enough at the right spot to slice through the cord under the dead weight of
Valachi's dangling body . Then a guard on duty outside his cell door , solid steel
save for a ...
Page 94
Already you could see he wasn't right in the head , ” Valachi says . “ I didn't tell
him anything I was doing . He wouldn't have understood it anyway . All he talked
about was how I was to blame for all his troubles . I don't know why . We never
did ...
Already you could see he wasn't right in the head , ” Valachi says . “ I didn't tell
him anything I was doing . He wouldn't have understood it anyway . All he talked
about was how I was to blame for all his troubles . I don't know why . We never
did ...
Page 246
... the end came for sixty - three - year - old Frank ( Don Cheech ) Scalice ,
identified by Valachi as the number two man in the Albert Anastasia Family . Four
bullets smashed through his neck and head , the New York police report reads , "
fired ...
... the end came for sixty - three - year - old Frank ( Don Cheech ) Scalice ,
identified by Valachi as the number two man in the Albert Anastasia Family . Four
bullets smashed through his neck and head , the New York police report reads , "
fired ...
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| Title | The Valachi Papers Bantam books |
| Author | Peter Maas |
| Edition | 9, revised |
| Publisher | Putnam, 1968 |
| ISBN | 067163173X, 9780671631734 |
| Length | 285 pages |
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