Henry Hill starts out at the age of 12, working as an errand boy for the Luchese family. He spends thirty years in the mob before joining the witness protection program.

Lucky Luciano was the first gang leader to treat organzied crime as a business. He got rid of the "Mustache Petes," bringing the mafia into the twentieth century.

Breslin satirizes the mobsters, portraying them as a bunch of barely functional losers.

Gotti works his way up from street hoodlum with a penchant for purple outfits to don of one of the Five Families and media darling.

Hunter spends a year with the Hell's Angels.

Wilkerson's father, publisher of the Hollywood Reporter, founded the Strip, not Bugsy Siegel.

Davis traces the Cosa Nostra to its roots in Italy, then focuses on the Gambino family, which originated with Albert Anastasia at its head. But Carlo Gambino was by far the most effective leader, ruling for nineteen years and dying in his own bed. Also includes material on John Gotti, who succeeded Gambino cousin as family head.

Mailer wrote this for fun after writing ANCIENT EVENINGS and EXECUTIONER'S SONG. The title was inspired by a quote from Frank Costello.

Raab shuns from any glorification of the mob. He shows the Bonannos, Colombos, Gambinos, Genoveses and Luccheses corrupting labor unions, the waterfront, garbage collection, the garment industry and construction in New York not to mention their usual gambling, prostition, loan sharking and drug capers.

Joseph Valachi was the first to break the code of Omerta when he became convinced he was being set up for a hit.

The head of the Bonanno family turns on his own people.

The Mob has been out of the headlines since Gotti. Capeci fills us in on what they've been up to lately.