Gaspipe: Confessions of a Mafia Boss

Carlo, Philip

ISBN 10: 0732287855 / ISBN 13: 9780732287856

Published by HarperCollins,Australia, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gaspipe: Confessions of a Mafia Boss
• Publisher: HarperCollins,Australia
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0732287855
• ISBN 13: 9780732287856
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1752610594.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: 7958429
• Signed: 7/15/2025 8:16:34 PM
• Seller catalogs:
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  • 9780732287856
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Synopsis

Anthony 'Gaspipe' Casso, boss of New York's Lucchese crime family, was a Mafia superstar, responsible for more than fifty murders. Now serving thirteen life sentences at a federal prison in Colorado, Casso has given journalist and New York Times bestselling author Philip Carlo the most intimate, personal look into the world of La Cosa Nostra ever seen. By pure happenstance, Casso had lived next door to the family of young Philip Carlo and so Carlo was able to get into the mind, heart and soul of one of the most cunning, ruthless mob bosses in the annals of crime history. In Gaspipe, Casso reveals the shocking detail behind headlineâ making crimes and crime figures, including the relationship between La Cosa Nostra and the Russian Mafia, the truth behind the Mafia and the narcotics trade, and much more. Chilling and illuminating, unvarnished and entertaining, Gaspipe is a rollercoaster ride into a world few outsiders have ever dared to enter.

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