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Underboss
by Peter Maas
ISBN: 0061096644
Amazon.com
What makes this account of the Mafia life and times of Sammy Gravano
so seductive is Peter Maas's skillful editing of interview material.
From his opening line--"Yeah, you could say I came from a pretty
tough neighborhood"--to his final poignant comment on having gotten
all his tattoos removed except a head of Christ that resists being eliminated--"I
guess God still wants me"--Gravano is nothing if not a compelling
storyteller. He talks about his years in a youth gang, his robberies
and shylocking, his murders, his lack of remorse (about which he is
"not happy"), the ceremony of becoming a "made guy,"
his mentors, his "crew," his preference for gangsters over
racketeers, his fascination with the Godfather films, his many business
ventures, and his final years of disillusionment as the Cosa Nostra
code he had passionately admired was breaking down, so that he chose
to testify against his last boss, John Gotti.
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