Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Five Families This text 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. It 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.
Full description- Publisher: St Martin's Press
- Published: 05 September 2006
- Format: Paperback 785 pages
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- Categories: True Crime | Organized Crime | History Of The Americas
- ISBN 13: 9780312361815 ISBN 10: 0312361815
- Sales rank: 12,464
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Full description for Five Families
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. The paperback has been revised and updated, with a new epilogue focusing on the trial of the notorious "Mafia Cops."
