Donnie Brasco-- unfinished business : shocking declassified details from the FBI's greatest undercover operation and a bloody timeline of the fall of the Mafia
by Pistone, Joseph D.
Print Book 2007 |
Available at 6 Libraries 6 of 7 copies |
Summary
When FBI Special Agent Joe Pistone began what was supposed to be a six-month operation infiltrating New York's Bonanno crime family in 1975, he had no idea what was about to happen. Posing as jewel thief "Donnie Brasco," Pistone would spend the next six years undercover in the Family, witnessing-and sometimes participating in-the Mafia's gruesome activities while gathering enough evidence to send over 200 gangsters to jail. Pistone told his story in the 1988 book Donnie Brasco -a New York Times bestseller and later a feature film starring Johnny Depp and Al Pacino. But because of pending trials at the time of publication, many details of the alleged crimes were omitted. Now, in Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business , Pistone for the first time reveals with great detail the horrific deeds of wiseguys Tony Mirra, Lefty Ruggiero, Sonny Black, and the rest of the cold-blooded Bonanno crew. He puts the operation into historical perspective, detailing the timeline of Mafia trials from 1981 through 2005 that crippled the New York City crime family. He also recounts his experiences after the operation, his time on the Hollywood set with Pacino and Depp, and other undercover operations through present day. A tense, thrilling account of the greatest infiltration ever by a federal agent into the most brutal gang of killers in the world, Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business is the final chapter in the story of a real American hero.
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Subjects |
Pistone, Joseph D.
United States. -- Federal Bureau of Investigation -- Officials and employees -- Biography. Spies -- United States -- Biography. Undercover operations -- United States. Organized crime -- United States. Mafia -- United States. Mafia trials -- United States. |
Publisher | Philadelphia :Running Press,2007 |
Other Titles | Unfinished business |
Contributors |
Brandt, Charles.
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Language |
English |
Notes |
Includes index. |
Description |
336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
ISBN | 0762427078 (hardcover) 9780762427079 (hardcover) |
Other | Classic View |