Blood Covenant, Michael Franzese
Blood Covenant, Michael Franzese
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Blood Covenant
The Michael Franzese Story

Author: Michael Franzese

Narrator: Michael Franzese

Abridged: 5 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/01/2009


Synopsis

A sworn member of the Colombo crime family in New York City, Michael Franzese was considered the biggest moneymaker in the mob since Al Capone. At age 35, he was number eighteen on Fortune magazine's list of the fifty most wealthy and powerful Mafia bosses in America. But then he did the unthinkable. He quit the mob. Franzese met Camille Garcia, who turned his world upside down with her innocent beauty. He fell in love with her, married her, and began a new life that didn't include the Mafia. Nobody of Franzese's rank ever just walked away from the mob and lived to tell about it. But Franzese has somehow managed to avoid the grave after he turned his back on the past. But what made him leave the lavish lifestyle of the Mafia? And how has he escaped what should have been sure death after he quit the mob? Now, in one of the most fascinating books ever written about today's Mafia, Michael Franzese reveals the answers to the many mysteries surrounding his incredible life. Walk the streets with him and find out how and why he has done what no one else managed to do--and live. Journey with him through a life defined by two blood covenants... ...The first bound him to the mob. The second set him free.

About Michael Franzese

Michael Franzese was one of the mob's biggest earners since Al Capone, and the youngest individual on Fortune magazine's “Fifty Biggest Mafia Bosses.” Then, after dodging the law for years, Franzese pled guilty, accepted a ten-year prison sentence, and quit the mob.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Cristiana on May 14, 2012

Why would you ruin a pretty decent book by wasting the last 20 pages talking about nothing else but God and trying to push your beliefs on me? I'm sorry but I don't buy it.......more

Goodreads review by Tony on October 12, 2012

Interesting for the inside view of the mob, but couldn't tell what exactly was true, embellishment, bravado or lies. Meh.......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on April 27, 2025

Michael takes you on a journey as to what life as a Mob Capo was like. A raising soldier in one of the old gangs in the world, his journey shows you both the highs and lows on mob life. This book covers his rise to "fame," as well as his fall from the top. as one of the few that leave the mob and not......more

Goodreads review by SiJay on April 04, 2022

I started to get some reservations about this one as I was getting closer to the middle. It’s a decent look into Micheals life from childhood to adulthood but I feel like a lot of this has been said already and he was rehashing the same stuff I already knew. He skipped over things that I wanted to d......more

Goodreads review by George on August 15, 2024

Great mob story interrupted by God’s grace on his life.......more