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Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires

by SELWYN RAAB

Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's Griffin

Paperback 812 pages English October 04, 2016

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The New York Times bestseller chronicling the history of NYC's infamous five mafia families is now the basis for the upcoming The HISTORY(R) Channel documentary series American Godfathers: The Five Families. For half a century, the American Mafia outwitted, outmaneuvered, and outgunned the FBI and other police agencies, wreaking unparalleled damage on 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 others. 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. This updated tenth-anniversary edition features a new preface by the author.
Author:
SELWYN RAAB
Publisher:
Griffin
Publication Date:
October 04, 2016
Number of pages:
812 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1250101700
ISBN-13:
9781250101709