Product Description

Now updated with 32 pages of new material, plus new photos, this official companion to the acclaimed series reveals an ever-expanding web of love, loyalty and deceit, with a complete dossier on Tony Soprano and his two families. Includes:

€ Full-color photographs from the family album
€ Exclusive interview with series creator David Chase
€ Episode guides updated through the fourth season
€ Plus FBI reports, court indictments, credit card statements, cash flow charts, body counts, neighbors' complaint forms, surveillance transcripts, family recipes, and more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #885464 in Books
• Published on: 2003-09-02
• Released on: 2003-09-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

About the Author
Allen Rucker is a writer and television journalist. He co-founded the experimental video group TVTV, and has written numerous award-winning TV specials and documentaries including the recent "Family Values: The Mob and the Movies." His published work includes two books of satire, The History of White People in America and A Paler Shade of White, both co-authored with the comedian Martin Mull. He teaches in the School of Cinema-TV at the University of Southern California.

Customer Reviews

Working for the mob any one
Well if you like the TV show the Sopranos you will love this book. The book puts you into the show and what goes on as if you were part of it. The book is loaded with pictures of the mob charactors as if they were a real family. Allen talks with the creator David Chase bringing to you where his idea's come from. Awalk through the fourth season. You will get to view FBI reports on the family right down to what they eat. This book is a must if you are a true follower of the Sopranos.

Great fun . . .
A light-hearted and fun romp through the lives (including some childhoods) of major Sopranos characters. Wonderful pictures, too. If you enjoy the human aspect of the series, this book is for you.

A bizarre book.
What I found in this book was something certainly unexpected.

I thought it would just be a coffee-table catalogue with episode reviews and character profiles, but instead it was that and much more. The book is made to look like a surveillance survey of the Sopranos family. It's pretty fun to read what the feds 'allegedly' think about some characters or events of the show, but what disturbed me was the fiction that was written there. Some facts are mere fantasies of the author and I don't think they are authorized by David Chase or anyone else from the creative team of the show.

So, it's a four-star book, still a good one.