Underboss Sammy the Bull - Hardcover

Maas, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060182563 ISBN 13: 9780060182564

Publisher: Avon Books, 1997

Synopsis

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.

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: Avon Books
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0060182563
• ISBN 13: 9780060182564
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 308