| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xx, 652 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The kiss of death -- A true Machiavelli -- Hitting the boss -- The Special goes south -- Sinatra, Capote, and the Animal -- Agent provocateur -- God, the Mob, and the FBI -- Thirty days in forty-two years -- The Octopus -- Guns and rabbis -- The royal marriage -- Going to Hell for this -- Love collision -- Twenty grand a week -- Enter the Secret Service -- Death of a second son -- The case of cases -- I shot him a couple of times -- Murder on the overpass -- A connection by blood -- Rumblings of war -- Death by wire -- Brains, butcher, and bull -- Coup d'etat -- Pearl Harbor -- Go out and kill somebody -- The hit on Nicky Black -- Closing and reopening "34" -- Who's going to win this thing? -- Scarpa's war -- A grain of sand on Jones Beach -- Expecting to go home -- The OPR -- The dying declaration -- Burning a good cop -- Gaspipe's confession -- Insane mad-dog killer -- Organized crime and terrorism -- Junior's second sting -- The cover up virus -- Agent of death -- G-man sticks it to DA -- The son also rises -- Appendix A. The principal figures -- Appendix B. The marriage certificate of Gregory Scarpa and Lili Dajani -- Appendix C. Gregory Scarpa Sr., arrest record -- Appendix D. June 18, 1962, Airtel to J. Edgar Hoover debriefing of Gregory Scarpa Sr. -- Appendix E. The "Girlfriend 302" -- Appendix F. 302 from Scarpa Jr.'s sting of Ramzi Yousef -- Appendix G. Ramzi Yousef's "kite" from the Scarpa Jr.-Yousef sting -- Appendix H. Judge Reichbach's decision and order dismissing the DeVecchio case. |
| Summary |
Lance draws on three decades of once secret FBI files to tell the definitive story of Greg Scarpa Sr., a.k.a. the "Grim Reaper," a Mafia capo who "stopped counting" after 50 murders, while secretly betraying a crime family as an informant for the FBI.--From publisher's description. |
| Subject |
DeVecchio, Lin.
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United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation -- Officials and employees.
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Organized crime -- United States.
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Political corruption -- United States.
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| ISBN |
9780061455346 hardcover |
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0061455342 hardcover |
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