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Alfonso "Little Al" D'Arco, the former acting boss of the Luchese crime family, was the highest-ranking mobster to ever turn government witness when he flipped in 1991. His decision to flip prompted many others to make the same choice, including John Gotti's top aide, Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano, and his testimony sent more than fifty mobsters to prison. In Mob Boss, award-winning news reporters Jerry Capeci and Tom Robbins team up for this unparalleled account of D'Arco's life.

"Johnny Boy" Gotti burst onto the national scene after a double murder catapulted him to the top of the Gambino family, the largest and most feared Mafia family in the USA. Gene Mustain and Jerry Capeci reveal the man behind the headlines.

They were the DeMeo gang - the most deadly hit men in organized crime. Their Mafia higher-ups came to know, use, and ultimately fear them as the Murder Machine. They killed for profit and for pleasure, following cold-blooded plans and wild whims, from the mean streets of New York to the Florida Gold Coast, and from coast to coast. Now complete with personal revelations of one of the key players, this is the savage story that leaves no corpse unturned in its terrifying telling.

A Paolo Borsellino, spazzato via venti anni fa da un'autobomba sotto casa di sua madre, in via D'Amelio a Palermo, piaceva citare dal Giulio Cesare di Shakespeare la frase secondo cui "è bello morire per ciò in cui si crede. Chi ha paura muore ogni giorno, chi non ha paura muore una volta sola". Il fatto è che l'omicidio di Borsellino è ormai diventato uno di quei buchi neri della storia italiana, simile in questo al rapimento Moro, in cui come in un gorgo si annodano e si raccolgono tutti i misteri, i protagonisti, le inconfessabili verità di un paese che ha sempre avuto molto da nascondere, in primo luogo a se stesso.