|
|
|
Underboss
by Peter Maas,Philip Bosco(Narrator)
|
Audio Cassette / HarperAudio / 1997-09-01 / listprice: $18.00
ISBN: 0694518700
Product Dimentions: 7.07 x 4.56 x 0.83 inches
Product Weight: 33 ounces
Customer
Reviews
More details from Amazon.com
or
Barnes&Noble.com
|
|
 Book Description
A high-ranking Mafioso, whose testimony helped the federal government convict elusive mob boss John Gotti, tells the strange details of his life to Peter Maas.
What makes this account of the Mafia life and times of Sammy Gravano so seductive is Peter Maas's skillful editing of interview material. From his opening line--"Yeah, you could say I came from a pretty tough neighborhood"--to his final poignant comment on having gotten all his tattoos removed except a head of Christ that resists being eliminated--"I guess God still wants me"--Gravano is nothing if not a compelling storyteller. He talks about his years in a youth gang, his robberies and shylocking, his murders, his lack of remorse (about which he is "not happy"), the ceremony of becoming a "made guy," his mentors, his "crew," his preference for gangsters over racketeers, his fascination with the Godfather films, his many business ventures, and his final years of disillusionment as the Cosa Nostra code he had passionately admired was breaking down, so that he chose to testify against his last boss, John Gotti.
In 1992, the highest-ranking member of the Mafia in America ever to defect broke his oath of silence and testified against his boss, John Gotti.Gravano's story is 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 underlies the so-called Honored Society.
|
|
|
|
| |
|
