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UNDERBOSS by Peter Maas FREE SHIPPING paperback book mafia biography true crime
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Subject
- True Crime
- ISBN
- 9780060930967
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060930969
ISBN-13
9780060930967
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1102520
Product Key Features
Book Title
Underboss : Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1999
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Murder / Serial Killers, Organized Crime, Criminals & Outlaws, Criminology
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
True Crime, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
10.2 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
97-157286
Reviews
Underboss is fascinating for its anthropologically detailed portrait of a subculture some of us can't get enough of., Brilliantly constructed and grimly fascinating. . . . The result is a terrific and important book. . . . It's important because it is a morality play on the subject of loyalty. To whom are you loyal, and from who should you be able to expect loyalty?, "An absorbing, intimate, alluring tale of power, greed, and Mob intrigue." -- People "A riveting job of detailing real Mafia life. . . . It's a quick, exciting reading and Maas deserves full marks for generally keeping the sharks of the mob from looking like dolphins. There's no chrome in the jalopy of Gravano's life." -- Detroit Free Press "Breathtaking...Supremely stylish." -- New York magazine "Brilliantly constructed and grimly fascinating. . . . The result is a terrific and important book. . . . It's important because it is a morality play on the subject of loyalty. To whom are you loyal, and from who should you be able to expect loyalty?" -- New York Times Book Review "A page turner that Maas writes in Gravano's voice. It's one readers will hear in their heads for a long while." -- Booklist "Underboss is fascinating for its anthropologically detailed portrait of a subculture some of us can't get enough of." -- Time, A riveting job of detailing real Mafia life. . . . It's a quick, exciting reading and Maas deserves full marks for generally keeping the sharks of the mob from looking like dolphins. There's no chrome in the jalopy of Gravano's life., A page turner that Maas writes in Gravano's voice. It's one readers will hear in their heads for a long while.
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
364.1/092
Synopsis
"Brilliantly constructed and grimly fascinating. . . . The result is a terrific and important book. . . . It's important because it is a morality play on the subject of loyalty. To whom are you loyal, and from who should you be able to expect loyalty?" -- New York Times Book Review Sammy the Bull Gravano is the highest-ranking member of the Mafia in America ever to defect. In telling Gravano's story, Peter Maas brings us as never before into the innermost sanctums of the Cosa Nostra as if we were there ourselves--a secret underworld of power, lust, greed, betrayal, and deception, with the specter of violent death always waiting in the wings., In March of 1992, the highest-ranking member of the Mafia in America ever to defect broke his blood oath of silence and testified against his boss, John Gotti. He is Salvatore (Sammy the Bull) Gravano, second-in-command of the Gambino organized-crime family, the most powerful in the nation. Today, Gotti is serving life in prison without parole. And as a direct consequence of Gravano's testimony, Cosa Nostra - the Mafia's true name - is in shambles. In Underboss, based on dozens of hours of interviews with Gravano, much of it written in Sammy the Bull's own voice, we are ushered as never before into the uppermost secret inner sanctums of Cosa Nostra - an underworld of power, lust, greed, betrayal, deception, sometimes even honor, with the specter of violent death always poised in the wings. Gravano's is a story about starting out on the street, about killing and being killed, revealing the truth behind a quarter-century of shocking headlines. It is also a tragic story of a wasted life, of unalterable choices,and the web of lies, weakness, and treachery that underlie the so-called Honored Society.
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