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Title: Takedown: The Fall of the Last Mafia Empire by Douglas Century, Rick Cowan ISBN: 0-399-14875-2 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 28 October, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.94 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The very BEST book of its kind in years
Comment: Takedown: The Fall of the Last Mafia Empire is by far the best Mob-related book I've read in years. For once we have the perspective of a true good-guy insider, not a bunch of turncoat felons or distant relationss to Mafiosi who heard some stories second and third hand. Detective Cowan's undercover journey was very suspenseful, and this book is definitely a page-turner. Here's an Irish-American cop who did it all, became a believable Italian -American business executive and got up close, wearing wires for YEARS as he met with made guys and capos in the Gambino and Genovese families. Definitely recommended, even if you are not a "Mob buff."
Rating: 5
Summary: Review of Takedown: The Fall of Last Mafia Empire
Comment: I have read many books about the Mafia and about undercover work inside the Mafia, and this is the best of them all. There are four reasons it is so good. In Takedown, the undercover agent gains access to the very top of the Mafia empire. Second, the tape recordings Cowan made are such high quality that many of the important conversations are reproduced verbatim. Third, the undercover cop is almost constantly in extreme danger. Fourth, Cowan and Century gives fascinating insight into the inner workings of a Mafia controlled legal industry (recycling) with a depth and breadth that no one else has ever achieved.
In contrast, the book that was turned into the movie Donny Brasco was excellent, but not as good as this one.
Rating: 5
Summary: Awesome!
Comment: Cowan's book is a riveting account of an undercover NYPD's officer infiltration of one of New York's most powerful Mafia families.
Much like a similiar work "Donnie Brasco", Cowan keeps the reader in perpetual suspense as the detective narrowly escapes detection from the Mob and exposure from his own colleagues.
He also provides a detailed and penetrating view of the Byzantine mechanics and day to day grind of the mob controlled "garbage business"
This book is one of the most successful at describing what life is actually like for low and mid level mafiasio.
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Title: Made Men: The True Rise-And-Fal Story of a New Jersey Mob Family by Greg B. Smith ISBN: 0425185516 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Blood Covenant: The Michael Franzese Story by Michael Franzese, Dary Matera ISBN: 0883688670 Publisher: Whitaker House Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: For the Sins of My Father : The Legacy of a Mafia Life by Albert DeMeo, Mary Jane Ross ISBN: 0767906799 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 27 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Born to Steal: When the Mafia Hit Wall Street by Gary Weiss ISBN: 0446528579 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Mob over Miami by Michele McPhee ISBN: 0451409655 Publisher: Onyx Books Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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