Description: 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.
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Book Title: Underboss : Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: HarperCollins
Intended Audience: Adult
Inscribed: No
Publication Year: 1997
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Illustrator: Yes
Author: Peter Maas
Genre: Crime & Thriller, True Crime, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Topic: Crime, True Crime, General, Organized Crime, Criminals & Outlaws, Criminology
Item Weight: 22.1 Oz
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
