Gaspipe: Confessions of a Mafia Boss - Hardcover

Carlo, Philip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061429848 ISBN 13: 9780061429842

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 2008

Synopsis

An intimate first-person profile of the world of a convicted mafia head includes coverage of such topics as the order he received to murder John Gotti, the intricate relationship between La Cosa Nostra and the Russian mafia, and the mafia's role in America's unions and drug networks. 75,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

"An exceptionally well-told true crime tale." -- Publishers Weekly

."This book will provide true crime readers chilling inside perspective of a serial killer." -- Library Journal

"Absorbing.detailed, Phil Carlo allows the killer's grotesque acts to be squarely view." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review

PRAISE FOR GASPIPE "Carlo has the real goods. .the inside information about the lifestyle, rituals, killings and betrayals is priceless. An authoritative look at a once-rampant predator now at bay." -- Kirkus Reviews

"And if your Sopranos addiction shows no signs of abating, check out Philip Carlo's GASPIPE."--Los Angeles Times

."..This book will provide true crime readers chilling inside perspective of a serial killer."--Library Journal

"Carlo's book is a chilling, painstakingly researched account of the summer that kept residents of the San Gabriel Valley and later the entire state, captive behind closed doors and windows in fear. I read the book twice I was so taken by it."--Northridge Chronicle

"Absorbing...detailed, Phil Carlo allows the killer's grotesque acts to be squarely view."--Los Angeles Times Book Review

"We've all read novelists and true crime writers who try to put you inside-the-mind-of-the-serial-killer, but I can't remember one that succeeded with the physical and psychological intimacy of this collaboration between the writer and the killer himself."--New York Press

"I couldn't put the book down. The details are amazing, told from many points of view; very scary indeed."--Los Angeles Times

From the Back Cover:

FINAL COVER BLURB

`This powerful story is required reading for anyone with a yen for the Mafia, the criminal underworld and a law enforcement system struggling to keep up' ± Publishers Weekly

Anthony ‘Gaspipe’ Casso, former head of the Lucchese family, is currently serving 13 life sentences at a federal prison in Colorado. Now, he has given bestselling author Philip Carlo the most intimate look into the world of La Cosa Nostra ever seen.

Casso’s life with the Mob was preordained. His father introduced the young Anthony to the ‘men of honour’ who did business by shaking pinkie-ringed hands – hands equally at home gripping the cold steel of a silenced pistol. The budding mobster watched and listened, and decided that he would devote his life to crime.

Casso concocted ingenious schemes to hijack trucks, rob banks and traffic vast quantities of marijuana and heroin – shattering the myth that the Mafia didn’t handle drugs. He also worked with the other Mafia families and forged strong ties with the Russian mob.

He was bringing in so much cash that he had dozens of large safety deposit boxes filled with bricks of hundred-dollar bills. But there was tragedy, too, and it ate away at the seemingly bulletproof Casso – a man who loved his family but ultimately questioned his choices in life.

The law finally caught up with him in his New Jersey safe house in 1993 and, rather than stoically face the music like the old-time mafiosi he revered, Casso became the thing he hated – a rat.

Detailing Casso’s feud with John Gotti, the ‘Windows Case’ that led to the beginning of the end for the Mob in New York, and Casso’s dealings with the NYPD Mafia cops, Gaspipe is a chilling and illuminating, unvarnished and entertaining roller-coaster ride into a netherworld few outsiders have ever dared to enter.

`The inside information about the lifestyle, rituals, killings and betrayals is priceless' – Kirkus Reviews

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0061429848
• ISBN 13: 9780061429842
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 346