Jerry Hester Mafia Miami (Hardback)
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- Book Title
- Mafia Miami : FBI Politics and How an Investigation Was Nearly Sabotaged
- Publication Name
- Mafia Miami
- Title
- Mafia Miami
- Subtitle
- FBI Politics and How an Investigation Was Nearly Sabotaged
- ISBN-10
- 1538162253
- EAN
- 9781538162255
- ISBN
- 9781538162255
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
- Format
- Hardcover
- Release Year
- 2024
- Release Date
- 05/03/2024
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Length
- 9.4in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, Social Science
- Topic
- White Collar Crime, Sociology / General, Law Enforcement, Organized Crime
- Item Width
- 6.2in
- Item Weight
- 0 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2024
- Number of Pages
- 180 Pages
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Get the inside look at an FBI undercover operation that exposed an Italian mafioso's global crime network. This remarkable and entertaining story takes readers through the challenges, twists and turns, and inevitable administrative roadblocks one encounters while running a high-profile and complex FBI investigation. Interwoven throughout the story are highlights of key bureaucratic changes driven by culture and policy that took place within the FBI at the time. Jerry Hester explains how those changes had a negative impact on not only the Paesan Blues investigation but also the entire future of the FBI's effectiveness and reputation.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1538162253
ISBN-13
9781538162255
eBay Product ID (ePID)
12061933943
Product Key Features
Book Title
Mafia Miami : FBI Politics and How an Investigation Was Nearly Sabotaged
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
White Collar Crime, Sociology / General, Law Enforcement, Organized Crime
Publication Year
2024
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, Social Science
Number of Pages
180 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.4in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6.2in
Item Weight
0 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hv6452.F72m3444 2024
Reviews
I had the honor of working undercover for the author on several occasions. Jerry Hester was one of the top case agents throughout the FBI. This book is such a fantastic read. From the sunny beaches of Miami to the picturesque villages of Italy, the Mafia and its greedy tentacles are finally exposed by Hester and his hand-picked team of exceptional agents. This international case is one that confirms the strong ties between the Sicilian Mafia and America's Cosa Nostra. Truly a riveting investigation!, Miami Mafia is an engaging book distinguished by a sharp, fast-moving narrative flow that provides readers with a vivid account of a modern organized crime operation and a behind-the-scenes look at the difficulties of investigating it while simultaneously battling barriers thrown up by petty office politics and an FBI undergoing radical and divisive change. It's loaded with scores of fearfully fascinating characters, vignettes of life inside the mob and the Bureau that take place inside the Mafia's Miami Beach hangouts on colorful Lincoln Road, to FBI offices in Washington and New York. There are intermittent stops in Rome, Palermo, and more. It involves anxious interoffice dramas and tense incidences with suspicious and brutal gangsters that could imperil an investigation known as "Paesan Blues." Readers will recognize Mafia names such as Gambino and Gotti and be introduced to colorful but callous characters known as "The Nose" and "The Hat." This is an excellent and timely gangster story that delivers an unprecedented true tale of a historically clandestine world of life inside the mob and the FBI, told by the agent who lived it. It should be required reading for new FBI agents or anyone who thinks they might want to be one., As an FBI special agent in charge of the biggest case of his career, author Jerry Hester delivers a riveting insider's account of operation "Paesan Blues," an unpredictable undercover investigation of a shrewd mafioso moonlighting as a wine merchant in Miami Beach with close connections to the mob in New York and Sicily. Hester cranks up the suspense in Mafia Miami by illuminating how the FBI zeroes in on its target with a bit of improbable luck from a Ponzi-scheming South Florida lawyer., Given the size and complexity of modern American law enforcement, with hundreds of thousands of employees working literally thousands of cases simultaneously, it is inevitable that things will periodically go wrong. In Mafia Miami, former FBI agent Hester recounts how internal agency politics and conflicting agendas nearly let things go awry. Hester lays his story out with all the detail and context of an investigator pulling together his case. He tells how he ended up posted in Miami investigating a major Mafia drug operation, accruing evidence and developing reliable sources, building his case step by painstaking step. He goes on to recount how internal politics and poor human judgment at first provided obstacles then threatened to derail the entire operation. While it's not Hester's intent to malign the (mostly) good work of the FBI, his story does illustrate how, even with the best intentions and the highest character, human agencies are subject to human foibles. For devotees of the true-crime genre, this makes for an illuminating study., Mafia Miami is the realistic account of a major organized crime case. Starting in Miami, it quickly reaches New York City and Italy. Jerry Hester, the case agent and author, painfully describes the additional challenges his investigation faced in the wake of the deleterious cultural change begun by former FBI director Robert Mueller., Jerry Hester takes us inside an elaborate FBI undercover operation just as the corporate changes that brought us the Russia Hoax were first visible on the horizon. There are moments when Mafia Miami resembles a Hollywood production, where everything glitters and nothing is real, except the criminal they are trying to entrap., Retired FBI agent Jerry Hester's riveting account of the investigation into 'a high priority Italian mafioso' living in South Florida takes readers inside the international operation. This book is a fascinating look at organized crime and how authorities work to shut it down.
Table of Content
Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 - Where do I begin. Chapter 2 - Getting there. Chapter 3 - Making a case, Miami style. Chapter 4 - To catch a Fish. Chapter 5 - On the hook. Chapter 6 - When in Rome. Chapter 7 - I want a Lawyer. Chapter 8 - Say it ain't so, Joe. Chapter 9 - With friends like these..... Chapter 10 - Culture, Policy, Career. Chapter 11 - Manny the Businessman. Chapter 12 - "Ricardo" Chapter 13 - Big cases, big problems. Chapter 14 - Keeping up with Jones. Chapter 15 - Meet the new Boss. Chapter 16 - Party planner Chapter 17 - Give me the phone. Chapter 18 - Bad vibe. Chapter 19 - Yes way, Jose. Chapter 20 - Bella Ciao. Chapter 21 - Wannabe Case Agent. Chapter 22 - The Confessor. Chapter 23 - This is the guy? Chapter 24 - The Pitch. Chapter 25 - No problem, brother. Epilogue About the Author
Copyright Date
2024
Lccn
2023-035458
Dewey Decimal
364.10609759/38
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23/Eng/20231212
Illustrated
Yes
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