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The boss of New York's infamous Lucchese crime family, Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso's life in the Mafia was preordained from birth. His rare talent for "earning"--concocting ingenious schemes to hijack trucks, rob banks, and bring vast quantities of drugs into New York--fueled his unstoppable rise up the ladder of organized crime. A mafioso responsible for at least fifty murders, Casso lived large, with a beautiful wife and money to burn. When the law finally caught up with him in 1994, Casso became the thing he hated most--an informer.

From his blood feud with John Gotti to his dealings with the "Mafia cops," decorated NYPD officers Lou Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, to the Windows case, which marked the beginning of the end for the New York Mob, Gaspipe is Anthony Casso's shocking story--a roller-coaster ride into an exclusive netherworld that reveals the true inner workings of the Mafia, from its inception to the present time.

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"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

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

"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

"Carlo tells this amazing story like a novel, with its dramatic ending when a hard-working, lowly police detective eventually got on Kuklinski's trail and hunted the hunter like a real-life version of The Fugitive. A chilling look at the creation of a psychopath."--Toronto Sun

"A fine entry in the burgeoning field of works tracing the decline of the traditional organized crime families and their once impenetrable structures."--Booklist

"Carlo's book is filled with never-known-before details. He did his homework and wrote a very compelling true crime tale."--CNN

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

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
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`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

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  • PublisherWilliam Morrow & Company
  • Publication date2009
  • ISBN 10 0061429856
  • ISBN 13 9780061429859
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  • Number of pages384
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