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The book is a story of life as a criminal and mafia associate. Breakshot includes Gallo's efforts to solve the 1987 murder of Joe Avila, [ 1 ] a local restaurateur in Orange County, California, who was also said to be one of OC's biggest cocaine dealers in the 1980s.
[3] books, the: a phrase indicating membership in the family. If there is a possibility for membership, then the books are open. If not, the books are closed. boss: the head of the family who runs the operation. [3] The boss also gets points from all family business; also see don, chairman.
The Green Felt Jungle is a 1963 book by Ovid Demaris and Ed Reid. [1] It exposes Las Vegas's dark underbelly, discussing the role of mobsters, prostitution, and political influence peddling in control of the city. It was a New York Times Best Seller for 23 weeks. [2]
In the United States, the paperback edition of Ferrante's memoir is titled Unlocked: The Life and Crimes of a Mafia Insider. [23] In the United Kingdom, the memoir is titled Tough Guy: The Life and Crimes of a Mafia Insider. The book has also been translated to Dutch. Ferrante's second book is titled Mob Rules and is a non-fiction business book.
I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran and Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa is a 2004 work of narrative nonfiction written by former homicide prosecutor, investigator, and defense attorney Charles Brandt that chronicles the life of Frank Sheeran, an alleged mafia hitman who confesses the crimes he committed working for the Bufalino crime family.
Easy Street: The True Story of a Mob Family (1981) is the first memoir of Susan Berman, daughter of Las Vegas mobster David Berman. In it, Berman chronicles her mother Gladys's and her own obliviousness to what went on around them.
As a result of the Apalachin meeting, the membership books to become a made man in the mob were closed in 1957 and were not reopened until 1976. [6] The first known account of the ritual in the United States was provided in 1963 by Joe Valachi, who was initiated in 1930, [3] in his testimony at the McClellan hearings. [7]
When Corruption Was King: How I Helped the Mob Rule Chicago, Then Brought the Outfit Down is a memoir written by Robert Cooley, a lawyer who once worked for Mafia members in Chicago but eventually turned in his former clients. The book is co-written by journalist Hillel Levin and was published by Perseus Publishing in 2004.