Five Families
Subtitle: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Published: August 25, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 784
ISBN-13: 9780312300944
Subjects: True Crime / Espionage; New York (State); True Crime; United States - 20th Century; True Crime / Organized Crime; New York; Case studies; Mafia; Organized Crime
First sentence: As Tony Accetturo recited this grave oath, the holy picture in his hand perished in flames.
Description: For half a century, the American Mafia outwitted, outmaneuvered, and outgunned the FBI and other police agencies, wreaking unparalleled damages to America's social fabric and business enterprises while emerging as the nation's most formidable crime empire. The vanguard of this criminal juggernaut is still led by the Mafia's most potent and largest borgatas: New York's Five Families. Five Families is the vivid story of the rise and fall of New York's premier dons from Lucky Luciano to Paul Castellano to John Gotti and more. This definitive history brings the reader right up to the possible resurgence of the Mafia as the FBI and local law-enforcement agencies turn their attention to homeland security and away from organized crime.