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

by Peter Maas

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An insider account of Mafia life and defection

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    Praise from The New York Times Book Review

    The review praises the book as brilliantly constructed and grimly fascinating, calling it a terrific and importa...

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An insider account of Mafia life and defection

Peter Maas presents Sammy “the Bull” Gravano’s account of his life in the Mafia and his decision to defect. The narrative offers a view into the Cosa Nostra’s inner world, as framed by Gravano’s experience, and foregrounds the tensions of power, greed, deception, and betrayal. Loyalty is a central thread: the story raises questions about where allegiance lies and what members of a criminal organization can expect from one another. The book’s subject is both an individual life and the workings of organized crime, making defection the lens through which those relationships and structures are examined.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in Mafia history and organized crime
  • Readers seeking a first-person account of life inside a criminal organization
  • Readers interested in biographies shaped by loyalty and defection

Themes

Organized crimeLoyalty and betrayalPower and greedDefection

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Book overview

"Brilliantly constructed and grimly fascinating. . . . The result is a terrific and important book. . . . It's important because it is a morality play on the subject of loyalty. To whom are you loyal, and from who should you be able to expect loyalty?" -- New York Times Book Review

Sammy the Bull Gravano is the highest-ranking member of the Mafia in America ever to defect. 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.

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