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Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia
 

Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia
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Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia

by Peter Maas
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Harper Perennial (1999-01-27)
ISBN: 0060930969
EAN: 9780060930967
Binding/Media: Paperback - 336 pages
Edition: 1st Edition, 9th Printing
Release Date: 1999-01-27
SKU: 696944
Condition: New
Comments: WITH A SHINY DUST JACKET. Early print. HARDBACK BOOK, DUST JACKET AND PAGES ARE IN PERFECT CONDITION, CLEAN AND TIGHT. SHIPS RAPIDLY BY EXPEDITED. PRIORITY AIR MAIL.


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Sammy the Bull Gravano is the highest-ranking member of the Mafia in America ever to defeat. In telling Gravano's story, Peter Maas brings us as never before into the innermost sanctums of the Cosa Nostra as if we were there ourselves--a secret underworld of power, lust, greed, betrayal, and deception, with the specter of violent death always waiting in the wings.
Amazon.com Review
America's fascination with organized crime is bottomless. From the books of Mario Puzo's Godfather series to films like Good Fellas, popular culture feeds an appetite for the dark side of the American dream--fortunes built on drugs, prostitution, and gambling instead of steel, railways, and software. But even in the most brutal films or books, a certain patina of glamour clings to fictional mobsters; their antihero status renders them strangely seductive. Now comes a real-life account of the mob by one of its former leading denizens: Underboss, the story of Sammy "the Bull" Gravano, as told by Peter Maas. Gravano spent his entire life in the mob, his loyalty unswerving until the moment he realized crime boss John Gotti was about to sell him down the river in order to save his own neck. At that point Sammy the Bull "switched governments" and turned state's evidence.

Gravano might not be well-educated and he's certainly not glamorous, but he's a vivid storyteller. What he has to say is horrifying in its matter-of-factness. Car thief, extortionist, intimidator, and murderer, Gravano was also a dedicated family man who preferred to spend evenings home with his wife and kids. Above all, he never lost sight of who and what he was: "I don't think I'm Robin Hood. I think I'm a gangster." John Gotti, on the other hand, thought he was a celebrity, an attitude Gravano obviously disapproved of. The relationship between Gotti and Gravano lies at the heart of this story, for loyalty is what Gravano lived by and what he ultimately betrayed. His reasons make for compelling, disturbing reading.

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