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The Mafia's Greatest Hits

by David H. Jacobs

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True Crime / GeneralTrue Crime / Murder / GeneralTrue Crime / Organized Crime

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Joey Gallo - killed in Umberto's Clam House, Little Italy, 1975; Abe Reles, the Murder Inc. stoolpigeon who was tossed out of a hotel window in Coney Island in 1941; Albert Anastasa, cut down in a barber's chair in 1957; Carmine Galante, killed in a hail of bullets as he finished lunch in a Brooklyn restaurant in 1977; Joe 'the Boss' Massiera, whacked in a Coney Island restaurant in 1933 - all are celebrated episodes of big-time gangland executions, told in the breezy, vividly direct tone of a sportswriter covering a ball game. With an introduction by Henry Hill.

Book Details

Publisher:
Citadel Press
Published:
2006
Pages:
228
Language:
EN
ISBN:
9780806527574
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