Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia (Thorndike Press Large Print Americana Series) - Hardcover

Maas, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786212535 ISBN 13: 9780786212538

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 1997

Synopsis

Describes the criminal career of Salvatore (Sammy the Bull) Gravano, who was second in command in the Gambino organized-crime family

About this title

Review:

‘Centring around family, greed, power and death, the real world of the Mafia is just as brutal and compelling as it seemed in the hugely successful Godfather movies.’
Daily Mirror

‘Brilliantly constructed and grimly fascinating.’
New York Times Book Review

From the Back Cover:

MURDER. DECEPTION. BETRAYAL.
ALL IN A DAY’S WORK.

Sammy the Bull Gravano is the highest ranking member of the Mafia in America ever to defect. Second in command to John Gotti in the nation’s most powerful crime family, Gravano’s eyewitness testimony sent Gotti, the so called “Teflon Don”, to prison for the rest of his life.

In breaking his blood oath of silence, Sammy the Bull brings us, as never before, into the uppermost inner sanctums of Cosa Nostra as if we were there ourselves – a secret underworld of power, lust, greed, betrayal and deception, with the spectre of violent death always waiting in the wings.

”Centring around family, greed, power and death, the real world of the Mafia is just as brutal and compelling as it seemed in the hugely successful'Godfather' movies.”
DAILY MIRROR

“Brilliantly constructed and grimly fascinating.”
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

Peter Maas is the author of the international best-seller 'The Valachi Papers', which Rudolph Giuliani, then a federal prosecutor and now the mayor of New York City, hailed as “the most important book ever written about the Mafia in America”.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0786212535
• ISBN 13: 9780786212538
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 542